Celebrating World Translation Day
Literature in translation today touches on wide-ranging and often challenging themes: whether it’s watching the last of a northern Canadian winter during a COVID-19 quarantine, bearing witness to [...]
September 2020
Jonathan Kaplansky's translation The Cry of Vertières: Memory, Liberation, and the Making of Haiti (by Jean Pierre Le Glaunec) was published with McGill-Queens University Press earlier this summer. [...]
Poetry in Translation: East Meets West
Canadian-American poet Molly Peacock stated that poetry was the most provincial form of art. Yet, this insight did not hold her back from making her poetry global through [...]
Four Ways to Celebrate Women in Translation Month
It’s August, which means it’s Women in Translation Month! Created in 2014, this initiative highlights the work of women writers and translators around the world. Although August [...]
Call for Literary Translations Issue no 92: Writing Translation Spring 2021
ellipse (est. 1969), the first and best-known literary magazine of its kind, is seeking French and English translations of poetry which reflect the concept of translation as authorship. For [...]
Nouha Homad’s Thoughts and Feelings
Nouha Homad Nouha is a translator, poet, artist, and teacher. She translates from Arabic, Spanish, and French into English, and from English into French. Click here [...]
From Pétrole to Paradise in Flames
During a two-week residency at the Maison de la littérature in February, Bobby Theodore and François Archambault worked together on Bobby’s translation into English of François’s Pétrole, a [...]
February 2020
La plus récente traduction de Nicolas Calvé vient de paraître chez Boréal. Jean-Baptiste décapité, ouvrage très original et très éclairant de la sociologue de la culture Geneviève Zubrzycki. [...]