MEMBER BLOG TAG: european literature
| Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:48AM | | | | New European Fiction | Tags: European literature, translation, European languages
| | | This event in part was a celebration of Best European Fiction 2010, the newly launched anthology. Aleksandar Hemon, who edited the volume, moderated this panel and did a generous job of it. He and Colum McCann began by talking about the fact that only 3% of literary work in this country is translated from other languages and that work seldom finds a mainstream audience here. European governments have helped fund this new enterprise published by Dalkey.
What follows is a very imperfect attempt to render some of the conversation that took place. Apologies to speakers for inaccuracies.
Hemon said he'd never met a writer who reads books only in his/her own language. That the project of translation is inherent in literature.... | | | | | |
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