Posted By: Katy Carr, 18 July 2011
Please see below for details from BCLT on their Summer School keynote with the fabulous Maureen Freely, who was with us in June for the Worlds Literature Festival. During the Worlds salon Maureen gave some fascinating insights into her working relationship with Orhan Pamuk (details from these discussions will be online soon) and the challenges and insights involved in translating. Maureen is a great speaker, whose personable style really brings the room to life - if you can get along to this event then I would highly recommend it:
The British Centre for Literary Translation and Writers' Centre Norwich are pleased to invite you to
The Translator as Writer with Maureen Freely
Tuesday 26 July 2011 at 1700
Thomas Paine Study Centre Lecture Theatre
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Followed by a drinks reception in the Thomas Paine Study Centre Foyer
Outside the Anglophone world it is not uncommon for novelists and poets to engage in translation. In doing so, they not only enrich their own writing but enter into the great conversations of world literature. Maureen Freely challenges the prevailing views of translators and translation in our own increasingly isolated literary culture, suggesting instead that translators are writers first and foremost, and writers whohold an advantage over those who write and read only in English. Translators have a great deal to say about the dangers and possibilities of literature in a global age. And there has never been a better time to say it.
Maureen Freely is a journalist, translator and novelist. Her translation of The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk was shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.
Admission free but please RSVP to bclt@uea.ac.uk
www.bclt.org.uk
01603 592785
Literary Translation Summer School
24-30 July 2011 • University of East Anglia Norwich, UK
Bringing together writers and translators for a week of literary translation workshops, panel discussions, lectures and readings.
