Bobby Theodore’s Delicious Dream at the Maison de la littérature
The translation residency at La maison de la littérature lives inside me like a delicious dream… In this dream, I shared an apartment with François Archambault. The apartment [...]
The Perils of Word Choices
How does one attempt to translate literary giants? In a previous post, I had urged fellow translators to do what they can in trying to fill in the [...]
Hearing Voices with Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo
Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo American-born translator Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo came to Quebec speaking only high-school French but after successfully pursuing a career as a professional artist and teaching drawing and painting [...]
Spring 2021
Six, yes, SIX, of our members are finalists for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards! Congratulations to Sophie Voillot, Daniel Grenier, Lazer Lederhendler, Sonya Malaborza, Arianne Des Rochers, [...]
Here is Elsewhere: Karl Jirgens & Mārta Ziemelis on translating Latvian literature
The next Here is Elsewhere event is set for Friday, April 30th at 7:00 pm EST. This series, now in its third instalment, is the brainchild of Beatriz Hausner, who [...]
Aleshia Jensen’s drawer full of brightly coloured mismatched socks
Aleshia Jensen Image credit: Julie Delporte Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English literary translator and former bookseller living in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her translations include Explosions by [...]
Here is Elsewhere: Ray Ellenwood on translating the Montreal Automatists
Here is Elsewhere is the brainchild of Beatriz Hausner, who conceived of it as a space for the reading, discussion, performance and promotion of world literature in translation. [...]
The Impetus For Literary Translation
In our world of Translation, of which I must admit having only a theoretical and quasi-experiential knowledge, the reasons why a literary work is translated into another language [...]
Announcing this year’s participants for the translation residency at the Maison de la littérature
During this year’s translation residency at the Maison de la littérature in Quebec City, translator Katia Grubisic will spend the month of March 2021 working with Haitian-Québécoise writer Marie-Célie [...]
Here is Elsewhere
We are glad to announce the launch of a new series of talks on poetry and translation! The first event, Here is Elsewhere, is this Friday, February 19 [...]