Jun 9, 2022
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ALTA45 Panel: The Translator as Curator
ALTA45 Panel: The Translator as Curator
Although frequently overlooked, translators play a vital role in shaping the lists of publishers and helping determine what makes its way to an English-reading audience through reader’s reports, samples, recommendations, and much more.
This panel will turn a spotlight on these activities and investigate what it means for a translator to act as a curator—what forms this can take, what responsibilities the translator has, how this role can be highlighted, and what impact this has on the translation ecosystem as a whole.
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Moderator
Chad Post is the publisher of Open Letter Books, and the editorial director for Dalkey Archive Press. He runs the Three Percent website, manages the Translation Database, and co-hosts the Two Month Review podcast.
Panelists
Julia Sanches is the author of more than a dozen translations from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. Born in Brazil, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Anton Hur was double-longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize for his translations of Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park and Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, the latter of which was shortlisted. Recent translations include Kyung-Sook Shin’s Violets and Sehee Baek’s I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, which is forthcoming this year from Bloomsbury UK and US.