Ali Smith on translators / Weidenfeld Übersetzungspreis
am 11.06.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
Letztes Jahr ging der Oxford Weidenfeld Übersetzungspreis an Denis Jackson, der nach und nach die Werke von Theodor Storm übersetzt.
Suchen Sie eine Übersetzung von Storm für Ihre englischsprachige Freunde - hier ist sie.
The winner of the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for translation has just been announced: Magda Szabo, The Door translated by Len Rix. Here’s the shortlist.
Ali Smith (I’ve just read a novel of hers, The Accidental), who was one of the judges, writes on translation in the Times Online today.
Of all the books published in the UK, only 3 to 4 per cent are translations. What’s the matter with us? Don’t we like to look at anything but ourselves? Are we so vain? Do we simply not care, not want to know what’s happening in the literatures of the rest of the world? It’s embarrassing. It’s like a terrible leftover of imperialism. Thank God for the publishers who take chances. Thank God for prizes like The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, an award for translations into English from any living European language, which “aims to honour the craft of translation and to recognise its cultural importance”. It’s a prize that also sets out to consider, in parallel, the heft of the original writing and the quality and importance of its translation into English.
The Times doesn’t say much about the winning novel, so here’s a …
Theodor Storm translator wins prize/Übersetzer von Theodor Storm ins Englische
Transblawg / Dieses Jahr geht der britische Weidenfeld Preis für Übersetzung an Denis Jackson, früher bei Siemens, für Übersetzungen von Theodor Storm, dessen Werke in Großbritannien vergriffen waren. Jackson hat eine Storm-Website …
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