Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other ...

Two graduate students at the University of Connecticut recently received awards from the PEN American Center for their work in the field of literary translation. Peter Constantine, former recipient of ...

The English translation of Omani poet and novelist Zahran al Qasimi’s work, 'Honey Hunger', by British translator Marilyn ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

How is literary translation different from other forms of translation? To oversimplify a little, non-literary translation such as commercial, legal, medical etc. tends to focus on the meaning of a ...

I START from a patent fact,—the widespread ignorance of classical literature on the part of persons who have received a classical education. It is not the scholarship of scholars that is here impugned ...

Translation is at the heart of the humanities, and it arises in every discipline in the social sciences and beyond, but it is not easy to say what it is. This course looks at the role of translation ...

Translating literature, from Dostoevsky to Banu Mushtaq, demands more than linguistic accuracy—it requires a writer’s instinct, cultural awareness, and radical sensitivity to language. Recent ...

“You don’t have your own field to plough, so you go to plough in other people’s fields,” said a commentator about literary translators, in the context of an incident that was discussed widely on the ...

In a country as linguistically rich as India, translation is more than a literary exercise—it is a lifeline connecting ...

“My decision to translate with attention to sound and cadence and rhyme will, I hope, demonstrate to readers and listeners—the Qur’an is meant to be read aloud—the beauty of the text, something that ...

Mangaluru: Former Vice-Chancellor and eminent scholar Prof. B.A. Vivek Rai has underscored the need to translate major works ...