Translation on Tap in NYC, Dec. 1 – 15, 2014

Thanksgiving is almost here, which means the holiday season is now officially upon us. Translationista wishes everyone a sane and, let’s hope, not too overly commercial holiday season. Fortunately there are a few translation events coming up in early December to sweeten the deal, including three that are part of Read Russia’s Russian Literature Week. Here’s what’s on tap:

Monday, Dec. 1:

An evening with Pierre Joris and Paul Auster to celebrate the publication of Joris’s new volume of Paul Celan translations, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, moderated by Ulrich Baer. New York University, Silver Center – Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East. Reservations recommended, more information here. 7:00 p.m.

Also Monday, Dec. 1:

“New Old Classics: Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov,” a panel discussion celebrating new translations of Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter  from New York Review Books and Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, translated by Marian Schwartz, from Yale University Press. With Marian Schwartz and editor Edwin Frank, moderated by Esther Allen, The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., free admission, RSVP recommended. 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 2 at noon:

“Then and Now: Classics v. Contemporary Literature,” a panel discussion with translators Marian Schwartz, Ross Ufberg (also the publisher of New Vessel Press) and Ronald Meyer, featuring new translations of works by Anton Chekhov from W. W. Norton, Andrei Gelasimov from Amazon Crossing, Sergei Lebedev and Vladimir Lorchenkov from New Vessel Press, Leo Tolstoy from Yale University Press, and Leonid Yuzefovich from Glagoslav. Columbia University, Harriman Institute, School of International and Public Affairs, RSVP here. 420 West 118th St., 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 3:

“Publishing and Politics”: Is there a relationship between world events and the choices that publishers make?  Why do some literary works get published in translation before they appear in their native language?  Publisher and translator Jeff Parker of Dzanc and translators Marian Schwartz and Antonina W. Bouis in conversation about the way the bigger picture (international affairs, state policies) can influence what gets translated, what gets published – and when. Moderated by author, translator, and critic Liesl Schillinger. Followed by a reception. Featuring new translations of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Definitely Maybe from Melville House and Zakhar Prilepin’s Sankya from Dzanc Books. RSVP here. Book Culture, 536 West 112th St., 7:00 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 5 and Saturday, Dec. 6:

The 2014 edition of the New Literature from Europe festival bears the title “Crossing Borders: Europe Through the Lens of Time.” Along with readings by a good dozen European writers (complete list here), the festival will feature a keynote address by New Directions publisher Barbara Epler, who has shepherded many a translation into print (including several of my own), at 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 5, and the prize ceremony for the Found in Translation Award, which is being given to Philip Boehm, at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 6. Boehm will also appear on a 2:00 p.m. panel on Dec. 6 entitled “Love in a Time of War.” These and the rest of the festival events will be held at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E 52nd St., full schedule here.

 

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