Live Translation - Translating Sex with Adriana Hunter and Polly McLean
Our second Live Translation event introduced a new challenge - translating sex. Our two translators, Adriana Hunter and Polly McLean, shared their versions of a specially-commissioned short story by the French writer Emma Becker, whose debut novel...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
March 8, 20131h 33m
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Translators Adriana Hunter and Polly McLean shared their versions of a specially-commissioned short story by the French writer Emma Becker, with Sarah Ardizzone in the chair and Emma Becker herself on the panel. The event explored the particular challenges of translating erotic fiction, discussing the decisions the translators made about voice and vocabulary.
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