1 Nov 2011

Art or Echo - What is literary translation anyway?

From Literary Translation: Art or Echo?, 9:01 am on 1 November 2011

Writer Kurt Vonnegut once said, "All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am in at least two languages, one of them mine." Amelia Nurse visits Jean Anderson, director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation and Marco Sonzogni, senior lecturer in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington.

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