Live Translation - World Literature Weekend 2011
This event is about cracking open the process of translation and taking a look at its inner workings. Translators have been described as an author’s best readers, and here the audience gets to read along with two of them. Shaun Whiteside and Mike...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 19, 20111h 25m
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Show Notes
Two translators – Shaun Whiteside and Mike Mitchell – went head to head with their versions of a previously untranslated work. Novelist Daniel Kehlmann provided the challenge, with the event chaired by Daniel Hahn, interim director of the BCLT and chair of the Translators Association.
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