[Libri] Another event on translation, Nov. 13

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The following event, sponsored by Amherst College, may be of interest.

Jim Wald




John Felstiner: "Translation -- The Art of Loss: Neruda, Celan, Rilke"
Wednesday, November 13, 4:15 pm, Fayerweather 115 (Pruyne Lecture Hall),

Amherst College.Free.  All welcome.

John Felstiner, Professor of English at Stanford University and
award-winning literary translator, will talk on the task of the
translator.  Felstiner has held Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and NEA
Fellowships.  A year of teaching North American poetry in Chile led to
"Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu" (1980), which won the
Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and to an interest in literary
translation.  His Pablo Neruda and Paul Celan translations won 1st and
2nd prizes from the British Comparative Literature Association.  Since
then, he has also taught at the Hebrew University in Israel and at
Yale.  His book on the German-speaking Jewish poet, "Paul Celan: Poet,
Survivor, Jew" (1995), was named a Finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award, the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, and it won
the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism.  He has edited "Jewish
American Literature: A Norton Anthology" (2000) and "Selected Poems and
Prose of Paul Celan" (2001), for which he won, among others, the Modern
Language Association’s Lois Roth Award for Translation of a Literary
Work, the American Translators Association’s biennial award for German
translation, and the PEN West's prize for literary translation.

Mr. Felstiner's visit is sponsored by the Department of German, the
Department of Spanish, the European Studies Program, and the Georges
Lurcy Lecture Fund at Amherst College.