Roundtable: Translating Chinese Danmei Novels into Western Languages
Date and time: 30 October 2024, 13:30 – 15:00 GMT
Venue: online, Microsoft Teams
Language: English
Speakers:
- English translator: Suika
- Italian translator: Giulia Carbone
- Russian translator: Tatiana Karpova
- Spanish translator: Marina López-Duarte Bandini
To register:
Join us for an online roundtable with translators of Chinese danmei novels in English, Italian, Russian and Spanish. You will have the chance to hear each translator’s experience, and communicate with them and other audiences regarding translation-related aspects of danmei novels in different cultural contexts. Please be aware the translators may be subject to non-disclosure agreements (NDA) with publishers.
About the translators
Marina López-Duarte Bandini translates Chinese boys’ love fiction (danmei) into Spanish. Her translations include two novels from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu: The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System and Heaven Official’s Blessing. She also translates manhua (Chinese comics), such as The Silent Concubine, See You, My King, and How To Survive As A Villain.
Giulia Carbone is an editorial curator and literary translator. She has worked and collaborated with various Italian publishing houses, as well as with magazines and newspapers, and she has translated numerous works of fiction and non-fiction from Chinese to Italian. In 2023, she launched the project La TraDotta, a community dedicated to translators and aspiring translators. She is the official Italian translator of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System.
Tatiana Karpova graduated from Novosibirsk State University in Russia and the Communication University of China, and holds a PhD in philology. She is a scholar of Oriental and Chinese studies, and an active translator of Chinese literature. To date, she has published more than 30 translations from Chinese into Russian. She is also the official translator of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s Heaven Official’s Blessing.
Hailing from Canada, Suika is the official English translator for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation and Heaven Official’s Blessing, both written by New York Times Bestselling author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. Active in the danmei fandom since 2018, Suika has worked on various danmei works in both official and unofficial capacities over the past six years.
This is a free event but registration is needed for participation. If you have any queries, please contact w.zhang3@exeter.ac.uk
Posted by: Wenqian Zhang w.zhang3@exeter.ac.uk