ALTA43: Annual Bilingual Reading Series: Multigenre Potpourri, hosted by Alexis Levitin

Translator, Author, Country, Language, Genre:

• Annie Fisher, Ksenia Buksha, Russia, Russian, Fiction
• Anna Vilner, Hebe Uhart, Argentina, Spanish, Nonfiction
• Jamie Richards, Dolores Prato, Italy, Italian, Fiction
• Hannah Allen, reading with author Salomé Assor, Canada, French, Fiction
• Emily Hunsberger, Alfonsina Storni, Argentina, Spanish, Poetry
• Dorothy Potter, Snyder Alberto Chimal, Mexico, Spanish, Other
• Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Shahzoda Samarqandi, Uzbekistan, Russian, Fiction
• Ghada Mourad, Omar Youssef Souleimane, Syria, French, Fiction
• Nancy Jean Ross, Rosario Castellanos, Mexico, Spanish, Other
• Sawad Hussain, Ahmed Val El Dine, Mauritania, Arabic, Nonfiction

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Readers

Anne O. Fisher’s translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s The Poetics of Titles is forthcoming in Countries That Don’t Exist (Columbia UP). In 2020, Fisher and co-translator Alex Karsavin were awarded a RusTrans grant to support their work on Ilya Danishevsky’s queer modernist novel Mannelig in Chains. Read more at www.anneofisher.com. Anna Vilner is a literary translator and PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of Hebe Uhart’s collected essays are forthcoming from Archipelago Books. Jamie Richards is an American translator and editor based in Milan. She translates contemporary Italian literature and comics, and is currently working on books by Dolores Prato, Marosia Castaldi, and Viola di Grado. Hannah Allen is a translator and musician studying French, Harp Performance, and Literary Translation at Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones des États-Unis and was selected to participate in the 2021 Banff International Literary Translation Centre. A lifelong speaker of Spanish as a second language, Emily Hunsberger is an emerging literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. You could say she is emerging from a career that, while non-literary, has thoroughly nestled her among the linguistic and cultural patchwork that lies across the Americas, including the United States. D.P. Snyder is a writer and translator from Spanish. Magazines: The Sewanee Review, Exile Quarterly, World Literature in Translation, Two Lines Journal, inter alia. Books: Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa (Nebraska 2020); Meaty Pleasures, Mónica Lavín (Katakana Editores 2021). Contributor: Public Seminar, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Reading in Translation, Asymptote. Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator of Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington. She translates poetry, fiction, screenplays, and also completely non-creative work, with a special focus on the contemporary literature of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, especially stories that highlight the intersection of culture and politics in recent history. Ghada Mourad is a lecturer of French and Francophone literature and a literary translator translating from Arabic and French. Her translations appeared in various literary journals including Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, Two Lines, The Common, Pen English, and Jadaliyya. Nancy Jean Ross lives with her family in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently completing her MA at the University of British Columbia. Her MA thesis is on the travel writing of Rosario Castellanos, focusing on Spain, the United States and Israel. Sawad Hussain is an award-winning translator from Arabic-English, who focuses on bringing narratives from the African continent to wider audiences.