Rhyme and Reason in Dante and the difficulty of translation: A talk by Simon West
13 June 2023
Thanks to those who attended this event, which was organised by AALITRA in assocation with COAS.IT and the Dante Alighieri Socety.
Thanks to Di Cousens for taking photos.
The Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers is designed to provide an environment for creative writing and to support those involved in the written word.
Residences are available for all types of writers engaged in literary creation. While we give priority to writers and translators, we are also open to any other discipline as long as writing is at the heart of the project. Stays in the Jan Michalski Foundation are granted to individuals as well as pairs of writers working on a common project. The latter might include a writer and a translator, a writer and someone from another discipline, two writers, and so on.
The Jan Michalski Foundation lies at the foot of the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher. The village is approximately 30 minutes from Lausanne and one hour from Geneva. It is possible to reach Montricher from Morges by train.
Six “cabins” overlook Lake Geneva and the Alps while a seventh is oriented towards the forested slopes of the Jura. One final cabin serves as a kitchen and common living area where resident writers can cook together, socialize and relax.
Applications for 2024 are now open and will be accepted until September 14, 2023.
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AALITRA, in association with COASIT and the Dante Alighieri Society, presents
Rhyme and Reason in Dante and the Difficulty of Translation A talk by Simon West
COASIT, 199 Faraday Street, Carlton
Tuesday 13 June 2023, 6.30-8pm
Free event. Booking essential here
There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we sometimes say, as if rhyme and reason were two distinct modes of thought. This talk explores the role of rhyme in Dante’s Divine Comedy and poetry more widely, and the challenges of ’non-reasonable’ discourse for translation.
Simon West is the author of five collections of poetry, including Carol and Ahoy, published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and The Ladder, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. He lives in Melbourne.
Image: Dante holding the Divine Comedy with scenes from the Divine Comedy and Florence in the background. Fresco by Domenico di Michelino, Florence, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
For our Summer 2023 issue, we are thrilled to partner with the Lontar Foundation to host a showcase of contemporary writing from the Indonesian—specifically literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry—to demonstrate the wealth that Indonesian Literature has to offer to the English-speaking world. Translators and authors whose work is featured in this showcase will each be paid USD80 per article. As with all sponsored showcases, submission fees will be waived; optional feedback can be requested for a fee of USD10. For translated prose, send up to 5,000 words; for poetry, up to 20 pages. Please include the original texts along with your translations. General guidelines below apply. Submit your best work via Submittable, and only if this is absolutely not possible, via email at editors@asymptotejournal.com with the subject header “INDONESIAN FEATURE”. Deadline: May 1st, 2023
The SALT Project will help bring the extraordinarily rich literature of the subcontinent to readers, writers, and scholars in publishing markets where it has been severely underrepresented. https://salc.uchicago.edu/salt-project
The shortlists for the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have just been announced.
Thirty-five judges considered a record 850+ original works across 11 categories. A total of $350,000 in prize money will be awarded when the winners are announced at the State Library on Monday 22 May, making these the richest state-funded literary awards in the country.
Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted and we thank everyone who submitted works for this year.
HEAT, Australia’s international literary magazine, has recommenced publishing on a bimonthly schedule.
HEAT is pleased to offer AALITRA members a special limited discount on a new subscription to the magazine.
The next issue, out in February, features translations by Elizabeth Bryer.
From: https://giramondopublishing.com/heat/about/
“HEAT is a controlled intensity. Noise is our enemy, and rubbish, and imposture. We stand for a simple integrity. And for writing which is committed, passionate, innovative and adventurous.”
HEAT is a distinguished Australian literary journal renowned for its dedication to literary quality, and its commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays, criticism and the hybrid forms.
This year’s W.G. Sebald Lecture on literary translation is given by Alberto Manguel, the Argentinian-born, Canadian writer, translator and editor and acclaimed author of The Library at Night and A History of Reading.
His lecture Notes on the Art of Translation, explores Manguel’s thoughts on translation as a form of reading, of writing and of thinking. The translator is the secret sharer in the creation of a text, providing the original with what Borges called ‘a draft in another language’. Translation allows a text to come of age, generation after generation, and to enter a culture different from that of the original creator.
The event will be livestreamed at 16.00–17.30 (BST) and includes a live question and answer session.
The Sebald Lecture 2023 is presented by the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT), in association with the National Centre for Writing and the British Library.
| Name: | The W.G.Sebald Lecture 2023: Alberto Manguel |
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| Where: | Online |
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| Price: | Members’ priority booking opens 31 January, general sale 1 February |
| Enquiries: | +44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk |
Book here:
https://www.bl.uk/events/the-wg-sebald-lecture-2023-alberto-manguel
Courtesy of Melbourne City of Literature:
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The period of residency being offered is from 20 March to 15 April 2023.
You will reside in a centrally located, fully furnished, luxury apartment. The apartment has air conditioning, wifi, private bathroom and kitchen. A washing machine is at your disposal and the apartment is cleaned weekly.
The deadline to apply is February 20.
For eligibility guidelines and to submit, visit the Submittable page. Submissions are due by February 15, 2023.
The grant is intended to facilitate the completion of a substantial sample of a book-length work of prose translation suitable for submission to English-language publishers, and will be awarded to an individual translator who has not yet received a book-length contract for translation work. Words Without Borders particularly welcomes submissions from translators from historically underrepresented cultures and backgrounds.
Submissions will be judged by translator Anton Hur and the editors of Words Without Borders.
An excerpt of the winning sample translation will be published in Words Without Borders, and the recipient will receive $3,000, funded by the Malecha Family Foundation.
We have launched the AALITRA Database of Autralian Literary Translators, intended to help users easily find experienced Australian translators of literary texts.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_-ZS8VhmzP7BxfX9ButhuZapVMq58Lu–9-IunytdOg/edit?usp=sharing
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants were established in the summer of 2003 by a gift from Priscilla and Michael Henry Heim in response to the low number of literary translations currently appearing in English. Their purpose is to promote the publication and reception of translated world literature in English.
Deadline: Submissions will be accepted from April 1, 2022 through June 1, 2022.
https://pen.submittable.com/submit/222480/2023-pen-heim-translation-fund-grants
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