Banana Peels to Trip up the Translator
Translated by Tom Moore 1 © Paulo Rónai’s text by Cora Tausz Rónai and Laura Tausz Rónai – Rights granted by Solombra Books. Paulo Rónai (1907-1992) was an eminent Brazilian translator, professor, and writer. He was the author of several books, including ‘Como Aprendi o Português e Outras Aventuras‘ and ‘A Tradução Vivida‘. Adapted from […]
The Multitudinous Peeves of a Professional Translator – Part 1:
Languages are like big gelatinous monsters that grow, absorb and morph into weird shapes, and it’s the translator’s job to make sense of wobbly language matter and try to reconcile it with the wobbly language matter of another species, a fun activity, for the most part: it’s still rife with stuff that consistently makes the […]
Language & Literary Criticism: Experiences from Multilingual / Translated Poetic Works
A battered copy of Tomas Tranströmer’s The Deleted World is near-always on my kitchen table or beside my bed (unless I’ve decided to introduce the Swedish poet to a friend). The bilingual edition, translated by Robin Robertson, is a constant reminder for me to engage language–particularly my second language, Swedish–from the ubiquitous creativity of poetry […]
