by Harriett Press | Apr 26, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
April 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting April has been such a hectic month that before the last Saturday of the month approached, three of us were already wondering if we would be able to finish reading Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan’s 470-page...
by Harriett Press | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Translation Process When I began translating Korean literature six years ago, I felt very uncertain about the process of translation. I knew that I started with a Korean text, and my goal was to produce an elegant-sounding English equivalent (ignoring the fact...
by Harriett Press | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
March 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday of March, our book club met at Wisma Atria’s Toast Box to discuss the late Singaporean writer Yeng Pway Ngon’s Chinese-language novel Unrest, translated by Jeremy Tiang. Three of us...
by Harriett Press | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Beginning One of my favorite quotes about translation comes from Umberto Eco: “Translation is the art of failure.” No matter how well something is translated, it can never capture the original text in its entirety. This quote lingers in my head as I work on...
by Harriett Press | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Rewards of Keeping a Translation Diary The idea of keeping a translation diary first took root in my mind when I came across Daniel Hahn’s translation diary on Charco Press’s blog in January this year. Hahn is a British writer, editor and translator (Portuguese,...
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