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The Spillover: The Translator’s Memoir/Novel/Imaginary Epistolary Dialog

121A, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

Four writers translating between English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, French, and Hebrew (over)whelm the conventions that separate reading and writing, writing and translation. They reflect on how their own writing continues their affective, political, and transcultural work of translating literary texts. In their work, they attend to the consequent reconfigurations of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and status that are marked by language and which change over time.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Spillover.outline_.docx
Supplemental Document 1: Spillover_reading_excerpts.docx
Supplemental Document 2: Sulak_excerpt.The_spillover_.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Marcela Sulak has authored three poetry collections and the memoir Mouth Full of Seeds. She coedited Family Resemblance, a hybrid anthology, and her five poetry translations have received an NEA Fellowship and a PEN Award nomination. She edits the Ilanot Review and hosts the podcast Israel in Translation.

John Keene is the author or coauthor of several books, including Annotations; Seismosis, with artist Christopher Stackhouse; and Counternarratives. He also is the translator of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s novel Letters from a Seducer. He teaches at Rutgers University-Newark.

Liliana Valenzuela, a Macondo and CantoMundo fellow, is the author of Codex of Love: Bendita Ternura, and Codex of Journeys: Bendito Camino. She is an award-winning writer, poet, translator, and journalist. Her work has appeared in Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, and Huizache

Judy Halebsky’s most recent book, Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged), was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Millar Williams Prize. Currently, she is translating Wago Ryoichi’s post-Fukushima ecopoetry. She directs the low-res MFA program at Dominican University of California.

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