Call for Papers "Greece in Translation"

Self-translation is listed among one of the possible topics for the conference "Greece in Translation" which will take place from October 5-6, 2012 at the University of Oxford.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts (250-300 words): 30 June 2012

For more information, please click here.

Research Seminar: “Dante’s Epic Ironies: Poetics, Metapoetics, Self-Translation"

On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 4:30 pm Simone Marchesi will give a research seminar with the title “Dante’s Epic Ironies: Poetics, Metapoetics, Self-Translation" in the Hesburgh Library in South Bend, Indiana.
For more information, please click here.

" If something doesn’t work, you can change it."

Lene Kaaberbøl is a Danish writer of juvenile fantasy novels, which she has self-translated into English. Her first crime fiction novel Drengen i kufferten (2008), co-written with Agnete Friis, and recently translated by Lene Kaaberbøl into English as The Boy in the Suitcase (2011), won the Harald Mogensen Award for Best Danish Crime Novel in 2009. In an interview with Jordan Foster (Publisher's Weekly), she explains that she enjoys the liberties she can take when translating her own work into English: "you get to cheat".

Interview:
Jordan Foster (2011): The Copenhagen Connection: PW Talks with Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis. In: Publisher's Weekly, Sep 16, 2011.

Nancy Huston Book presentation in Germany

Nancy Huston is going to present the German translation Infrarot of her novel Infrarouge/Infrared in Germany this summer:

25.06.2012 Heidelberg, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut at 8 p.m.
26.06.2012 Frankfurt, Romanfabrik at 8.30 p.m.
27.06.2012 Berlin at Institut français Berlin, 7 p.m.
28.06.2012 Dresden, medien@age - Die neue Dresdner Jugendbiliothek, at 8 p.m.
29.06.2012 Magdeburg

Nancy Huston: new book and lecture

Nancy Huston has just published a new book Reflets dans un oeil d'homme (Actes Sud), which teeters on the edge of novel and essay. I couldn't find any information whether or not it will be published in English too.
She will present her new book on Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 pm at the library Apostrophe in Chaumont, France. Please click here to find more information.

To read an extract, please click here.
Press reviews:
L'Express (25.04.2012)

Urdu-English poetry

Dr. Irfan Khaja Moinuddin has published his Urdu-English poetry collection “Ilham: Inspired Verses” in a bilingual edition in November 2011. The poems have been written in Urdu and have been translated by the author. To learn more about this collection, please read the press release. You can take a look insight this book on amazon.

L'autotraduzione in Canada

Filippo Salvatore will talk about "L'autotraduzione in Canada"  on May 15 at the University Udine in Italy.

For more information: http://ccc.uniud.it/?q=node/216

L’autotraduction chez Nancy Huston

"L’autotraduction et la problématique d’identité chez Nancy Huston" is the title of a conference talk by Katayoun Asari next week at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Conference: "Colloque des étudiants de maîtrise et de doctorat"

Place: University of Waterloo, Canada

Date: April, 27

More information: http://french.uwaterloo.ca/convergence-2012.html

Monica de la Torre on self-translation

Monica de la Torre has written an article on her experience of self-translation, that will be published in the next issue (N°81) of the journal Translation Review. While trying to find out more about Monica de la Torre, I came across an interesting post by Susan Bernofsky on her blog Translationista. Susan Bernofsky attended a talk by de la Torre last year, where she shared some interesting insights in her process of self-translation. If you want to find out how google translator can sometimes be accidentally genius, please read the entire post on Translationista. I am looking forward to read Monica de la Torre's article.

ACLA conference 2012

Self-translation has been discussed in two talks at the 2012 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, which took place from March 29 to April 1, 2012 at the Brown University, Providence:

Jennifer Raterman, Rutgers University “Pseudonym as Self-Translation in Romain Gary’s La Promesse de l’aube”

Marlene Hansen Esplin, Michigan State University“The Status of the Self-Translated Text in U.S. and Latin American Literatures”

Basque self-translators

Several Basque self-translators will be present at a conference on the future of the Basque language taking place in Madrid from 13-15 March 2012.
On Wednesday 14th March at 8 pm the writers Mariasun Landa, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Eider Rodriguez and Miren Agur Meabe will discuss "La creación en el país vasco: utopías y desafios".
To see the full program, please click here.