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Does it seem to you that the #CeatlConference in Strasbourg took place ages ago? Well, you’re not alone. Luckily, we have our memories... and videos! This week’s #CeatlFriday is a throw-back to the talk Georgi Gospodinov gave about writing and translating.   According to Gospodinov every writer secretly is a translator, because writers “translate, carry over, dress up in words that which they take from inside themselves or from the world, from what has been experienced, thought, read. Writing is transformation and translation of the visible and the invisible, from which the author creates their works. Or translation of the invisible into the visible”.   Then he tells how a nightmare he had as a child led to a brilliant idea, and talks about empathy, being friends with your translators, and why translation and literature are important today, with all the terrible things going on in the world. “Literature, and especially translated literature, is a natural antidote against populism and propaganda”, he says.   Read the whole speech and be inspired here: English: https://lnkd.in/egrv6Zun French: https://lnkd.in/euD6umma   📷 © Benoît Linder   #EuropeanTranslators

Don't Do It... If you're considering a career as a translation specialist, here is some crucial advice to help you decide whether this path is right for you. For my recent book 'Yes, You Can', I interviewed four professionals who shared their insights and experiences, which informed this article. Don't Do It If... [continues on the blog] https://lnkd.in/eGMiVPhg #xl8 #LITranslators #financialtranslation #businessadvice

Summer is over, work and school have begun, where did all that free time go? Anyway, #CeatlFriday is back! This week we want to share a #Counterpoint article by Brandon Mull, writer of the Fablehaven books.   What is the primary goal of translating? For Brandon Mull, it is preserving the truth embedded in fiction. An effective translator doesn’t provide equivalent words in a new language, he or she seeks to convey the same impression in a new language. This means sometimes things need to be adjusted and only a human can make educated decisions on what can be lost.   AI can write stories; it can maybe even one day imitate human writers. But do we really want the study of the human heart and mind carried out by trained machines?   Brandon Mull: ‘Good writing is largely about honesty. Even the best AI is nothing more than an accomplished hack. I want a human translator to preserve the value in my stories. If we take that out, we lose most of what stories have to offer.’   Read all Brandon Mull has to say in #Counterpoint: https://lnkd.in/eFz923EY  

When you think of documentaries, one about a translator and her journey to translate a novel doesn’t come to mind first, does it? With this week’s #CeatlFriday, we hope to change that. Welcome to Dreaming Murakami, a documentary by Nitesh Anjaan about Danish Murakami-translator Mette Holm and her journey to translate Murakami’s debut novel Hear the Wind Sing!   This is not a traditional documentary, but rather a way to create a bridge between language and the imagination. But how to make such an endeavour interesting, without compromising either art form? Enter a two-metre tall Japanese-speaking frog that follows Mette Holm around, as if we’re not talking about a book she’s translating, but about visiting another world.   The result resonated not just with Mette Holm, but also with other (Murakami) translators around the world, who felt recognized and inspired by the movie. Not only that, people often tell Anjaan that his film made them think about literary translation for the first time.   Read all about this in our backlist #Counterpoint article: https://lnkd.in/eXZnycSK P.S.: You can follow Mette on Instagram: @MetteKojima! Highly recommended...   #EuropeanTranslators #Counterpoint #FromtheArchives

This week's post is brought to you on Saturday morning, from Copenhagen, were I am fully emerged in all things literary (Danish) at BogForum. But are you ready to start another month on a high note? Here’s another #CeatlFriday, bringing you this October’s #WeekInTranslation with our special guest on Instagram, Janine Malz, posting from Munich, Germany!   Janine is a proud member of the VdÜ and translates from Dutch, Italian and English into German. Showing us the desk at which she works, she then immediately took us to Frankfurt, just in time for the Book Fair, and a presentation of her translation!   And if you want to learn more about what Munich is famous for, what is a translator’s worst enemy, the pros and cons of freelancing, and the strangest places us translators do our job, hop over to our Instagram page at https://lnkd.in/e5Gcfn5z and check out Janine’s full #WeekInTranslation!   #EuropeanTranslators

📢 It’s official! After months of pandemic-born writing and many cups of coffee-fueled collaboration, our book "Introducing Audiovisual Translation", co-authored with Anna Jankowska, is now available for pre-order from Routledge Taylor & Francis Group! A big thank you to everyone who supported us along the way. We’re excited to see it come to life! You can pre-order the book now ahead of its official release on 30 September. We're happy to share the discount code we received from the publisher in case anyone is interested: https://lnkd.in/d6dcQkbw #AVT #subtitling #captioning #AudioDescription #dubbing #VoiceOver ESIST - European Association for Studies in Screen Translation

The question for this #CeatlFriday is an important one: will #AI ever be able to translate literary works? David Diop, writer and professor at the University of Pau (France) thinks not. Why? In literary translation, it is not just words, but also feelings and sensations that must be ‘translated’. A machine will never be able to do that. They can only produce bad translations and are incapable of translating ‘the strangeness of the foreign work’, its true beauty. Read all about it on #Counterpoint: https://lnkd.in/eMPbJEhf #EuropeanTranslators #Counterpoint

You won’t catch me in a meeting without a legal pad and pen in hand—and I take tons of notes in the margins while I read. I’ve always believed that handwriting notes helps you process information better, but it’s fascinating to learn the science that explains why.