F223. Translation as Pure Writing IV: Nonfiction

Room 506, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, April 1, 2016
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

This panel follows last year’s on poetry translations (as well as the 2014 panel on fiction translations) by turning to creative nonfiction and exploring the pleasures and virtues of translation as pure creative nonfiction writing, where the writers are not distracted by what sort of form to employ, how to develop a character, or how in the world to end or begin. The panel also examines the question of whether the idea of “truth” in nonfiction is affected by the presence of translation.


Participants

Moderator:

Becka Mara McKay is a poet and translator. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University and has published one book of poetry and four translations of Hebrew fiction and poetry.

Sarah Viren is a writer and translator based in West Texas. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from such journals as the New Inquiry, the Colorado Review, the Normal School, Diagram, Fourth Genre, and the Pinch, which awarded her its 2014 Creative Nonfiction Award.

Jennifer Zoble translates Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and Spanish-language literature; coedits InTranslation at The Brooklyn Rail; coproduces the international radio drama podcast Play for Voices; and teaches writing in the interdisciplinary liberal studies program at New York University.

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