THE LANGUAGES OF EXILE: Translating Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Literature

WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
This one-day conference is dedicated to exploring the theme of ‘exile’ in its widest sense in the context of translating modern and contemporary Hispanic literature: from the language of self-exile of Juan Goytisolo to the language of political exile of César Vallejo and the theme of the exiled body in contemporary Spanish poets. The conference will bring together scholars, translators, writers, publishers and others from a variety of different backgrounds and interests to consider representations of exile and how translators respond to these in their own ‘languages’.
EVENT OUTLINE
A day of presentations, readings, and discussions on the translation of fiction, prose and poetry from Spanish
Key note speaker: Peter Bush (Translator and former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation)
Confirmed speakers include the following translators, academics, researchers, writers and publishers:
Dr. Tom Boll (King’s College, London)
Dr Rocío Duran Barba (Writer, translator, Ecuador) Dr. Steven Cranfield (University of Westminster) Noèlia Diaz Vicedo (Alba Londres & University of Westminster)
Francisco Brines (Poet, Spain) – in a pre-recorded interview for the conference
Álvaro Fierro (Poet, Spain) Rosalind Harvey (Translator, coordinator of Emerging Translators Network)
Claudio Tedesco (Translator, London) Stefan Tobler (Translator, publisher of ‘And Other Stories’, UK)
A Round Table discussion on translating César Vallejo between:
Valentino Giannuzzi (Researcher and translator, UCL) Michael Lee Rattigan (Translator, poet, UK) Joseph Mulligan (Translator, USA) Professor William Rowe (Birkbeck College, London)
COST
FREE, but places are limited
FURTHER INFORMATION
For additional information contact Olga Núñez Piñeiro O.Nunez@westminster.ac.uk
Further information on the conference programme and how to register will be posted at: http://languagesofexile.wordpress.com/
You can also register directly at: http://languagesofexile.eventbrite.com/
With the additional support of the Instituto Cervantes, the National Network for Translation and Hispania