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Compiled by Carrina LaCorata and Maggie Zebracka.


The Attempt
by Magdaléna PlatzováThe Attempt
Translated from Czech by Alex Zucker
Published on: May 26, 2016

THE FIFTH ASIA-PACIFIC FORUM ON TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
Date: October 28- 30, 2016
Venue: University of Hawai‘i, USA
Language: English

ORGANIZERS:  University of Hawai‘i, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Tsinghua University, China
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:  Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, USA; Weihe Zhong, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China; Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds, UK; Michael James Puett, Harvard University, USA

14 May 2016, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
UMass Boston Campus Center
Boston, MA
http://www.netaweb.org/

Join us for a reading and conversation with Greek writer Christos Ikonomou and translator Karen Emmerich. Ikonomou will read from and discuss his short story collection, Something Will Happen, You’ll See (Polis Editions, 2010)—a wrenching yet optimistic elegy to Greece’s working classes.

Translation-loving fellows, take note!

ALTA has EXTENDED the deadlines for panel proposals, submissions to the National Translation Award (NTA), Italian Prose Translation Award (IPTA), Stryk Prize until FRIDAY, APRIL 15th!

Compiled by Carrina LaCorata and Maggie Zebracka.

A Contrived World by Jung Young-MoonA Contrived World
Translated from Korean by Jeffrey Karvonen & Mah Eunji
Published on: April 29, 2016

ALTA blog contributor Maggie Zebracka interviewed with translator Rachel Hildebrandt.

MZ: You were born and raised in Texas. How did you come to be interested in German, and specifically German translation?

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APRIL 2016 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
BUILDING CROSS-CULTURAL BRIDGES THROUGH TRANSLATION

Presented by Dr. Evelyne Accad, Author and Translator
Moderated by Prof. Cynthia Hahn, Lake Forest College

Saturday, April 2, 2016

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ALTA blog contributor Ken Bruce interviewed author and translator Sara Nović, whose novel Girl at War has just come out in paperback in both the US and UK. 

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