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On the Line: Latin American Translation Slam
On the Line: Latin American Translation Slam
Translation is moving perpetually between here and there, as the multiple possible translations of any given text reveal. In this competition, three experienced translators will step forward in turn to occupy the in-between space of the translation yet-to-be-recognized as having “arrived,” reading their individual translations of the same as-yet untranslated passage selected from Latin American literature.
An excerpt or brief prose piece by a known author will be selected by the moderator with an eye to the in-betweenness of the text or its author (with respect to genre, gender, ethnic, or socioeconomic position); attendees receive the original and translations in advance as a link to a pdf (below) and are encouraged to bring questions and comments to the live portion of the session.
Event handout: https://bit.ly/2RXjjeY (opens in new tab)
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Moderator
Amalia Gladhart’s translations include Trafalgar (Angélica Gorodischer) and The Potbellied Virgin and Beyond the Islands (Alicia Yáñez Cossío). She has recent fiction in Cordella, Portland Review, andThe Fantasist. Her translation of Gorodischer’s Jaguars’ Tomb, supported by an NEA Translation Fellowship, is forthcoming from Vanderbilt UP.
Presenters
Andrea G. Labinger translates contemporary Latin American fiction. Gesell Dome, her translation of Guillermo Saccomanno’s noir novel Cámara Gesell (Open Letter 2016), won a PEN/Heim Translation Award. Her translation of Saccomanno’s 77 was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award, 2020. The translator of over forty books by the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century, Suzanne Jill Levine’s original works include The Subversive Scribe. Her translation of Julio Cortazar’s All Fire the Fire has recently been reissued by New Directions, and her latest translation is Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (2020). Patricia Dubrava translated The Red Sea by Rafael Courtoisie and teaches literary translation at the University of Denver. Her translations of Mexican short fiction have appeared in over twenty-five journals, most recently The Massachusetts Review, 2020. Her blog is www.patriciadubrava.com.