by Harriett Press | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Beginning By Stella Kim 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...
by Harriett Press | Mar 11, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translation Diary, Translators
The Rewards of Keeping a Translation Diary By Hannah Pang 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...
by Harriett Press | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
February 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting February had been a busy month for most of us, what with the CNY celebrations, the on-goings in our personal lives, and the increasing workload that marks the first quarter of the year. The majority of us...
by Harriett Press | Feb 2, 2021 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
January 2021 Translated Literature Book Club Meeting Our book club met up for our first meeting of the year last Saturday, 30 January 2021, at Food for Thought in the National Museum of Singapore. It was really great meeting over drinks and fries, exchanging thoughts...
by Harriett Press | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction
December Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday afternoon of 2020, we held our fifth book club meeting at Shake Shack along Neil Road to discuss Korean writer Ha Seong-nan’s Flowers of Mold, translated by Janet Hong. We’d originally...
by Harriett Press | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction
November Translated Literature Book Club Meeting On the last Saturday of November, we held our fourth book club meeting at The Moon Cafe to discuss the late Japanese writer Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel No Longer Human, the second bestselling novel ever in Japan....
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