In the first part of an interview series featuring literary translators, we have J. Devika who talks about the creative challenges of translation, how all texts have sedimented layers of culture in them, and the particular joys of translating K.R. Meera’s “The Angel’s Beauty Spots”. By Chirdeep Malhotra -January 28, 2020 J. Devika is a teacher and researcher …
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Weird Finnish Phrases that Make No Sense in English Finnish is quite a unique language with only 5 million people speaking it as a mother tongue. The language has many funny sayings that turn out to be hilarious when translated directly to english! Here are a few weird Finnish phrases and the story behind them. Matti …
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26 August 2019 Australian translator and academic Bonnie Suzanne McDougall has won a Special Book Award of China at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). McDougall was awarded the prize for her work developing the skills of young Chinese translators overseas as a professor at the University of Sydney, and translating books such as Letters Between …
You’re at a work meeting when all of a sudden your Chinese colleagues begin conversing in Mandarin. You would either do three of these things: Pretend like you understand them. Whip out your phone and “disappear”. Write an essay on Facebook about what had just happened. Remind them to speak in English. For Roshen Maghan, …
16 July 2019 , By Maite Francois Nowadays, anyone can get a translation in a matter of seconds online. But while a machine translation is excellent for getting a general idea of the meaning of a text, it can get you into all kinds of trouble if you are relying on it to be 100% accurate. Translating …
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A professional translator is the star of Malaysia-based biscuit company Julie’s Manufacturing’s newest campaign in China, which aims to challenge the notion that only short-form videos work in the country. The 15-minute-long film, produced by Govt, tells the story of a translator named Jonathan Huang, who helps others communicate professionally, but is unable to do …
A translator does not transcribe a text, he argues, nor do they rewrite it May 21st 2019 by A.P. FOR A long time, translators had a hard time of it. They were underpaid and under-recognised by the literary establishment, rarely mentioned in reviews of the titles they worked on. But as foreign fiction has gained popularity—according …
Emil A. Wcela – May 08, 2019 “Literal, reverent, faithful to the Latin original, suited to a sacred function like the Divine Liturgy”? Or “clunky, with run-on Latin sentences where the subject is long forgotten by the time one gets to the object, a misguided attempt to teach Latin grammar and vocabulary by means of …
By Ben Dooley – Feb. 24, 2019 Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in Tokyo. He was 96. The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University confirmed his death. He …
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BY CHRIS WOOD 18 JAN 2019 Gladys Yang studied at Oxford University, where she became the first person to graduate in Chinese Literature and also met her husband, before returning to China to teach and later translate some of the nation’s finest authors into English. “Scholar dies”, ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on November …
