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TRANSLATING WORLD LITERATURE: JAPAN AND RUSSIA

With presentations by ROYALL TYLER and ROSAMUND BARTLETT

Thursday 6 March 2014

Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne

During this evening dedicated to world literature in translation, two eminent translators talked about their work. Royall Tyler, translator of The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike, spoke about “Translating Medieval Japanese Epic and Theatre” and Rosamund Bartlett, biographer and translator of Tolstoy and Chekhov, among others, spoke about “Translating Tolstoy”.

Click on the links below to download the recordings:

Royall Tyler            Rosamund Bartlett

Photo by Di Cousens

Photo by Di Cousens

Photo by Di Cousens.

Photo by Di Cousens