Translate in the City – Literary Translation Summer School, London, UK. Booking now open: http://www.city.ac.uk/courses/short-courses/translate-summer
6-10 July 2015. Includes Chinese-to-English option.
For practising professionals and newcomers to the art of translation.
An immersion course in literary translation into English across genres – including selections from fiction, poetry, history, essays, journalism, travel and academic writing – taught by leading literary translators and senior academics, with plenty of opportunities for networking with publishers, agents, university staff and one another.
Workshops will be offered in the following languages: Polish – Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Portuguese – Margaret Jull Costa OBE; Chinese – Nicky Harman; Russian – Robert Chandler; Japanese – Angus Turvill; Spanish – Nick Caistor; French – Ros Schwartz (who is also Co-Director of Translate in the City); Italian – Howard Curtis; German – Ruth Urbom; Amanda Hopkinson Co-Director Translate in the City.
Please note: All translation is into English and English needs to be your language of habitual use.
Nicky Harman <n.harmanic@gmail.com>