Translating BCMS Bodily Language

The four translators taking part in the workshop hope to encourage a lively discussion among our US colleagues, share their experience, and build a strong sense of community.

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Moderator

Ellen Elias-Bursać translates fiction and nonfiction from the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. ALTA’s National Translation Award was given to her translation of David Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer in 2006. She is ALTA’s President.

Presenters

Will Firth was born in 1965 in Australia. He studied German and Slavic languages in Canberra, Zagreb, and Moscow. He lives in Berlin and translates from Russian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian. His best-received translations have been Aleksandar Gatalica’s The Great War, Faruk Šehić’s Quiet Flows the Una, and Miloš Crnjanski’s A Novel of London. Christina Pribichevich Zoric has translated over thirty-five books from Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and French. She worked as a broadcaster for the English Service of Radio Yugoslavia in Belgrade and the BBC in London. She also served as Chief of Conference and Language Services for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Randall A. Major is a linguist and translator, and teaches translation into English at the University of Novi Sad. He was a translator and editor of the thirty-volume Serbian Prose in Translation series produced by Belgrade’s Geopoetika Publishing. He has translated works by Svetislav Basara, Vladislav Bajac, Dragan Velikić, Laslo Blašković, and Zoran Živković.