Join us for a Translation Workshop with Susan Bernofsky, followed by a discussion. In the workshop, Susan Bernofsky will present an assortment of issues for discussion along with some real-life translation problems and on-the-spot exercises. No particular foreign-language skills or previous experience required. If you are interested in receiving the texts for the workshop, please e-mail Isabel de Sena.
Susan Bernofsky directs the translation program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her translations include works by Robert Walser, Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, and Hermann Hesse. The recipient of numerous awards (most recently the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize), she blogs about translation at www.translationista.com and is currently at work on a biography of Walser.
Sponsored by the Dean of the College, the Literature and the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Faculty Groups, and Babel, Sarah Lawrence College's Translation Magazine.