An 8-Week Translation Workshop
Tuesdays, September 1 - October 20, 6-8 PM
“Translation may be impossible, but it can at least be essayed,” so writes Gregory Rabassa in his tongue-in-cheek translation memoir If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents. In this 8-week course, we will be taking a look at impossible passages, the feelings that come up for translators when dealing with such impossible passages, before delving into possible solutions, workarounds, and experimentations—all to illuminate the monumental creative work that is literary translation. The 2nd half of the course will be devoted to workshopping participants’ translations of various levels of impossibility.
$270 Members/$335 Nonmembers
Soleil Davíd is a poet and translator from the Philippines. She received a BA in English with high distinction, with a minor in Creative Writing, from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Indiana University Bloomington.
Soleil is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, and has received support from both the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Translators’ Conferences, the Barbara Deming Fund, the Community of Writers, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, among others.
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