Translating “The name of the Rose”, an example of a linguistic quality assurance process applied to literature
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In 1983 Italian academic, historian, semiologist, journalist and author ... Read more >
“Literary lockdown”: how the translation of a novel by a best selling author made for a thriller film plot
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
The French film Les traducteurs (The Translators) premiered last year in November at the French Film Festival in Prague. The plot follows a group of nine talented polyglots charged with ... Read more >
Elephant in the zoom, Le Creuset wrist, and cough-shaming: how Covid lingo is creeping into our every day language
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Neologisms related to the coronavirus pandemic are spreading so fast that it is hard to keep up and our article on this topic of March 25 is already out ... Read more >
“Multiples”, 12 short stories in 18 languages by 61 authors, a captivating experiment in translated literature
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"Multiples", is an anthology of multiple translations edited by world-acclaimed British novelist Adam Thirlwell and published in 2013. Thirlwell chose 12 stories, written in Danish, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, German, Arabic, ... Read more >
Félix Fénéon’s three-line “nouvelles”, an experiment in haiku journalism and insightful snapshot of life in the “Belle Epoque”
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), was a writer, journalist, art critic, art dealer and publisher who "shook up the world of literature" in the early 1900s by inventing a new literary genre: ... Read more >
Constance Garnett, the great Russian classics, and the problem of era-specific translation
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
"It is sometimes said that in order to convey atmosphere a translation must be redone for each generation". Is this really the case? asks author and journalist Sara Wheeler in a recent article for ... Read more >
Would Olga Tokarczuk have won the Nobel prize if she had not been translated into English?
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Nobel prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk has been a bestselling author in Poland for three decades. In a recent interview for "The Guardian" she says she wonders how her life would have worked out if ... Read more >
The recovered original of Koestler’s “Darkness at noon”, lost in 1940, now out in a new English translation
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
A new translation of the internationally acclaimed anti-totalitarian novel "Darkness at Noon" will allow the English reading public to read it for the first time as Arthur Koestler wrote it. A recent article in for "The Literary ... Read more >
Can a fine translation be as important and unique as the original work?
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
In an article for the NYR Daily, author/translator Tim Parks explores what he calls a "perplexing" dilemma. Most readers are only familiar with texts translated in their own languages, and if they enjoy the translation ... Read more >
Should local adaptation of a book include replacing potentially sensitive content?
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Yes, according to Yuval Noah Harari-a bestselling author whose books have been translated into over 60 languages and sold over 20m copies-if there is a risk that the book will be banned in a specific country. Harari ... Read more >