Three Percent’s Politics of Translation Event

If you're in Rochester . . . (maybe they'll post video for the rest of us):

Next Monday (March 23), we’re hosting a roundtable discussion at the
University of Rochester with several highly distinguished guests—and,
also, Chad will be there. Here are the basics:

“The Politics of Translation: What Gets Translated and Why”
March 23, 5:00 P.M.
Plutzik Library
(in Special Collections at Rush Rhees Library)
University of Rochester

It’s sure to be a
lively discussion on the forces and fortuities that bring (or stop)
literary books into English translation. The panel will feature:
-Amanda Hopkinson, British Centre for Literary Translation at the
University of East Anglia, translator of Diamela Eltit and others.
-Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California-Santa Barbara, author of
The Subversive Scribe, translator of Manuel Puig and others.
-Kathleen McNerney, West Virginia University, editor of “Garden across the Border: Merce Rodoreda’s Fiction.”

And will be moderated by:
-Chad Post, director of Open Letter Books, the University of
Rochester’s publishing imprint specializing in literary translations.

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