Join us March 7, 2021, 3 pm (EST)!
Literary Translation 101
This session will offer an introduction to literary translation for writers; working on the basis that flexibility and skill in English are the most important requirements for participants. You need not know or have studied a foreign language. We will explore the fundamental questions of translation.
Bio
Danielle Legros Georges is a writer, translator, academic, and author of several books of poetry including The Dear Remote Nearness of You, winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motten book prize. She directs the Lesley University MFA program in Creative Writing. Her awards include fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Boston Foundation, and the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. In 2015 she was appointed Boston’s second Poet Laureate. Her most recent work is a book of translations from the French, Island Heart: The Poems of Ida Faubert, published by Subpress Collective in 2021.
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