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Literary Translation: Writing, Reading, and Recreating | Led by Alejandra Oliva
$ 225 $ 180 usd
Before Sep 7, 2025
+ available add-ons
Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT – Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT
Dates Breakdown
Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 7:00 – 9:00 PM EDT
In this workshop, you will explore translation as a form of obsessive reading: a way of personally creating and recreating those texts that fascinate you, and learning how to incorporate these practices into your reading and writing life. Using the reflections of authors/translators such as Kate Briggs, Mireille Gansel, Jennifer Croft, and more, we will investigate how to create a translation practice that coexists with reading and writing.
You will bring in one (short!) text that we will work with over the course of the three class sessions, first reading and annotating it, then translating it, and finally, mining it for ideas for you to take into your own writing.
Through mini-lectures, writing prompts, and partner work, this class will guide you through the creation of a translated text. Class will be conducted in English, and my own language pair is English/Spanish—but you can be working in any language pair.
Instructors
Alejandra Oliva
Author, Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration
Contact us
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- 212-226-3586
Classifications
Categories
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Creative Nonfiction