R199. CANCELLED: Centering Margins: Literary Translation as Social Activism, Sponsored by ALTA
Status: Not Accepted
Thursday, March 5, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Participants
Somrita Ganguly is a professor and literary translator working at Brown University as a Fulbright doctoral researcher. She was selected by the National Centre for Writing UK as an emerging translator in 2016. Her work has been showcased at the London Book Fair. She has published in India, UK, and US.
Eric M. B. Becker is a writer, literary translator, and editor of Words without Borders. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, and PEN America. He has translated the work of numerous authors from the Portuguese.
Larissa Kyzer is a writer and Icelandic-English translator, whose translations include Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s award-winning A Fist or a Heart. Kyzer is a member of the Ós Pressan literary collective, ALTA, and PEN America’s Translation Committee, and was Princeton's fall 2019 translator in residence.
Elina Alter is a writer and translator. Her work appears in BOMB, Guernica, Modern Poetry in Translation, the New England Review, the New York Times, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. She is the editor of Circumference.