Workshop on the 2020 Manifesto on Translation

How do we recognize the progress the translation community has made, identify priorities in 2020, and create a vision for the future of literary translation? Make your own contribution to the new Manifesto! The first fifteen people to email Requires JavaScript (opens in new tab) will receive a draft of the working document after September 1. Identify your priorities among the calls for action, and submit comments, edits, or suggested changes to the same address by September 30. Those fifteen people will be able to participate during the synchronous workshop, and everyone else is invited to gather with us virtually as the group will discuss and incorporate the feedback received. See your work reflected in this historical artifact!

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Moderators

Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She received the 2020 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Hiromi Kawakami’s The Ten Loves of Nishino. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Kanako Nishi. She maintains the database Japanese Literature in English. J. Bret Maney is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY. He is the translator and co-editor of a bilingual scholarly edition of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s novel Manhattan Tropics (Arte Público, 2019), and the translator of a collection of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s poetry forthcoming from Deep Vellum in 2021. Elizabeth Rose is a literary translator and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. They translate from German and Spanish, and their scholarship centers the intersections of translation, queer theory, and transnational American studies. Their work has appeared in Alchemy, Tupelo Quarterly, and Raspa Magazine, among other places.