Archives for Topic: 2022

WAAT #52: 2022 Practice in Review

Dec 19, 2022 3 Comments

This is the last newsletter of 2022. Here’s a recap of some highlights and an invitation for you to join me in an annual word-of-the-year exercise.

WAAT #51: Nature + Nurture + ?

Dec 12, 2022 4 Comments

A reader asked, “How do I know if I have it in me to become a good literary translator?” In my response, I got into the divisive nature-nurture discussion.

WAAT #50: WAAT Session: Nick Glastonbury on elevating translations from underrepresented languages/cultures

Nov 21, 2022 No Comments

In WAAT Session 02, Nick Glastonbury, a translator of Turkish and Kurdish literature, discusses the whys and wherefores of elevating translations from underrepresented languages/cultures and his own translation work.

WAAT #49: WAAT Links: The Trick of Translation

Nov 07, 2022 2 Comments

Here’s a set of links to translation-related essays, interviews, podcasts, virtual events, submission calls, and more to start the working week. And a reading recommendation.

WAAT #48. Reading a Translated Work While Physically in Its Setting (community thread)

Oct 31, 2022 7 Comments

Translated works that you read while you were physically in the setting of the book? Mine is The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy, translated from French into English by Alan Brown, and set in the historically working-class neighborhood of St. Henri in Montreal, Quebec.

WAAT #47: On Cohesion and Coherence

Oct 24, 2022 2 Comments

Cohesion is about the surface relations between the sentences that make up a text. Coherence is more about the underlying relations between the sentences that make up a text. Cohesion is about the parts. Coherence is about the whole.

WAAT #46: WAAT Links: On translated text and context

Oct 17, 2022 3 Comments

Here’s a set of links to translation-related essays, interviews, podcasts, virtual events, submission calls, and more to start the working week. And a reading recommendation.

WAAT #40: WAAT Session: Mithu Sanyal & Alta L. Price on Author-Translator Collaboration

Oct 07, 2022 No Comments

In WAAT Session 01, the German author Mithu Sanyal and the literary translator, Alta L. Price discuss their author-translator collaboration process for Alta’s English translation of Mithu’s novel, Identitti.

On Knowing More Than One Language (and Some Interesting Links)

Oct 03, 2022 No Comments

Here’s a set of links to translation-related essays, interviews, podcasts, virtual events, submission calls, and more to start the working week.

WAAT #39: On Anachronisms in Literary Translation

Sep 30, 2022 3 Comments

Every day is International Translation Day at ‘We Are All Translators’ but Happy International Translation Day to you all. Let’s consider the cases for and against literary anachronisms (and archaisms) in translation, shall we?

Always Translating (and Some Interesting Links)

Sep 26, 2022 No Comments

Here’s a set of links to translation-related essays, interviews, podcasts, virtual events, submission calls, and more to start the working week.

WAAT #38: Your favorite translated book that deserves more attention?

Sep 23, 2022 2 Comments

Please share your favorite translated work that isn’t as well-known as it should be and deserves more attention.

Jenny Bhatt is an author, a literary translator, and a book critic. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student of literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. She has taught creative writing at Writing Workshops Dallas and the PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship Program. Sign up for her free newsletters, We Are All Translators and/or Historical Fiction Craft Notes. Jenny lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. (Photo Credit: Pixel Voyage Photography / Arushi Gupta)

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