"This is Why": Translators on Translating

Schedule

Sat Jun 13 2026 at 04:30 pm to 05:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 7 | Oxford, EN

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Join acclaimed translators to hear more about their practices and choices in translation.
About this Event

Join acclaimed literary translators who have featured on prestigious shortlists and longlists to hear more about their translation practices and choices. They will discuss a short poem or passage that they have recently translated, and give the audience insight into the “hows” and “whys” of their approach.

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St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 7, 56 Woodstock Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

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