Jun 9, 2022
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ALTA45 Panel: Reviewing Translations: An Outside Look
ALTA45 Panel: Reviewing Translations: An Outside Look
Translators continue to bemoan the lack of inclusion of the translator in reviews of translated works: while the translator has chosen every word the English-language reader encounters, why do so many reviewers elide them–or, at most, give them a single sentence praising their writing’s “fluidity”?
What role do editors of literary journals play in the process? Panelists Kate Hedeen, Bill Marx and Ron Slate all wear double hats as critics and editors. Come share in their conversation about the various considerations at work when they assign, edit and/or write reviews of translations.
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Moderator
Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her awards include the 2017 PEN Translation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and is currently the Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. www.tesslewis.org.
Panelists
Katherine M. Hedeen is a translator and essayist and a specialist in Latin American poetry. She is a Managing Editor for Action Books and curates a regular feature of microreviews of poetry in translation for the Action Books blog (actionbooks.org). She is a Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College. www.katherinemhedeen.com. Bill Marx is the Editor-in-Chief of The Arts Fuse. For just over four decades, he has written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online. He has regularly reviewed theater and books for National Public Radio Station WBUR, the Boston Globe, and a number of national. Ron Slate is a poet and critic, a board member of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and a member of the NBCC. He was a judge for the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize. Ron edited a poetry magazine, The Chowder Review, for 15 years and in 2007, he founded On The Seawall, a community gallery for new writing and commentary that features reviews of literature from around the world.