FW: Conference announcement

[Alina Israeli]

FYI:

Below you will find information about the conference on translation,
"Lost and Found: The Art of Translation," hosted by the International
Writing Program at the University of Iowa in October.  I would
appreciate it very much if you could please forward this to interested
lists and individuals.

Thank you very much,

Susan Benner
Conference Coordinator
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The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
announces its second annual festival, a conference and celebration
of literary translation:

           "LOST AND FOUND: THE ART OF TRANSLATION

taking place on the University of Iowa Campus on

           OCTOBER 12, 13 & 14, 2001

The conference will consist of public readings, lectures, and panel
discussions on a broad range of topics related to literary translation.
Participants include some of the most illustrious translators from
around the world, among them Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin;
Edmund Keeley, the translator of the works of two Nobel laureates,
George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis, as well as those of the greatest Greek
poet of the last two centuries, Constantine Cavafy; Eliot Weinberger,
translator of Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's Collected Poems; poet Heather
McHugh and literary scholar Nikolai Popov, who have translated the
most important poet of the Holocaust, Paul Celan; Chinese poet Bei Dao;
and poet Daniel Weissbort, former director of the University of Iowa
Translation Program, who has translated a number of modern Russian
poets including Nikolai Zabolotskai and Evgenii Vinokurov.

Other participants include John Nathan, who holds the Takashima Chair
of Japanese Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara and who has translated
several novels by Nobel laureate Kezaburo Oe, and writer William Gass,
whose most recent book is Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of
Translation.  They will be joined by Clare Cavanagh, co-translator of
Nobel
laureate Wislawa Szymborska's Poems New and Collected and of Adam
Zagajewski's poetry and prose; Linda Asher, who along with her husband
Aaron Asher has translated the Czech novelist Milan Kundera's work;
Gran Malmqvist, a member of the Swedish Academy and translator of
Chinese literature; and Zvonimir Radeljkovic, professor at the University
of Sarajevo and founding member of PEN in Bosnia, who has translated
extensively from contemporary American and English literature.

The conference is free and open to the public.  Visit our website at:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/AOTintro.
For further information or to register, contact Susan Benner at
susan-benner at uiowa.edu, (515) 233-1664.  Or write to the International
Writing Program, 469 EPB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA   52242-1408.

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016

aisrael at american.edu

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