Literary Translation: Art or Echo?

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… Read more Audio

English writer George Borrow once said, "Translation is at best an echo." Amelia Nurse looks at four wildly different translations of a single poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, with Jean Anderson… Read more Audio

English writer Anthony Burgess once said, "Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." Amelia Nurse talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ… Read more Audio

"Many critics, no defenders, translators have but two regrets: when we hit, no one remembers, when we miss, no one forgets." (Anonymous). Amelia talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ Centre for… Read more Audio