As I mentioned a few days ago, they handed out eight translation prizes in London on Monday, and Boris Akunin delivered the annual Sebald Lecture (it should eventually be available online here), and there are now a few reports available from those lucky enough to attend the event.
At the TLS blog Thea Lenarduzzi reports on The angels of translation -- and offers the great anecdote from Boris Akunin's lecture, that his mother didn't approve of him switching from being a translator to writing his own books:
At the TLS blog Thea Lenarduzzi reports on The angels of translation -- and offers the great anecdote from Boris Akunin's lecture, that his mother didn't approve of him switching from being a translator to writing his own books:
She read his novels with a pencil and questioned his plots -- why not do something "serious, "why not translate something ?", she pleaded.At the tanjara there's also a nice report -- with pictures ! --, Roger Allen presented with Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation at London ceremony (though the whole ceremony is covered there), and between the lines also has a report, The freedom to look at clouds in a non-predatory way, or the joy of being a translator, by Boris Akunin.