Metaglossia: The Translation World

Tras leer la obra, la escritora intuyó que estaba ante una figura de la literatura argentina contemporánea.El autor de Trenes del Sur asistió a la conferencia de la profesora, realizada en la Alianza Francesa.

PATRICE EVRA has been informed that he may have difficulty proving he was the victim of racial abuse from Luis Suarez, because of a counter-argument that certain variations of the N-word are not deemed offensive where the Liverpool player grew up,... Suarez has categorically denied racially abusing the Senegal-born France player and the FA’s investigators are having to consider the different context with which words that would be considered offensive in England are commonly used in Uruguay and other Spanish-speaking countries.

“Negrito”, for example, could have shocking connotations for someone without full knowledge of the nuances of the language. But the counter-argument is that this is one of several derivations that are used in many countries, with no derogatory meaning – often in the same way someone could be called “pal” or “mate”.

Seven of the ten chapte­rs have alread­y been transl­ated.

The world’s most translated book, the Bible, has been translated once again. This time into Dutch slang, a mixture of Dutch, Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan, English, and Carribean Papiamento. The...

Les Jurys ont dévoilé samedi 12 novembre les trois lauréats suivants : Drago JANCAR (Prix Européen), Valère NOVARINA (Prix Francophone Jean Arp) et Jörk WICKRAM (Prix du Patrimoine Nathan Katz).
Le lecteur trouvera ci-dessous le communiqué de presse diffusé à l'issue de la réunion plénière des trois Jurys. Sont attachés en pièces jointes les dossiers de presse concernant les trois prix littéraires ainsi que les deux bourses de traduction qui vont à Andrée Lück-Gaye pour ses traductions de Drago Jancar et à Catherine Fouquet pour la première traduction d'une oeuvre majeure de Wickram.

“Light novels have the essence of manga, animation, and video games combined,” says Viz founder, Seiji Horibuchi.

Segovia, quien murió el lunes pasado, fue un pilar de las letras mexicanas, marcado por su exilio de España. Vivo de la nostalgia, decía.

A lo largo de los años, y las campañas de marketing, han sido varios los productos tecnológicos que han causado revuelo por un mal uso del idioma en mercados extranjeros.

Gracias a Eugenia Flores Soria me entero de que el 30 de octubre anterior se celebró el 140 aniversario del nacimiento de Paul Valéry, (1871-1945), uno de los grandes poetas franceses contemporáneos, autor de poemas y ensayos fundamentales.
Leí —en traducción— a Valéry cuando era un muchacho y por mera casualidad. Mi primer maestro de artes plásticas se llamaba Pablo Valero, quien al tiempo que nos hacía trabajar, conversábamos. Cuando supo que este su lerdo alumno era un admirador de la poesía se acercó para hablar de ella, pues él también era un adicto. “Yo me llamo como uno de los grandes poetas franceses: Paul Valéry. ¿Lo conoces?” Claro que no. Entonces estaba ensimismado en Baudelaire, Hesse y Carroll, según recuerdo. Pronto me prestó un libro de Valéry y, por supuesto, quedé patidifuso.

El Principito, una de las obras más difundidas de la literatura universal, publicada en más de cien idiomas, fue traducido al kaqchikel, por iniciativa de la Embajada de Francia y el Instituto de Lingüística de la Universidad Rafael Landívar...

The annual Governor General's Literary Awards — administered by the Canada Council for the Arts — have been giving similar boosts to Canadian authors for 75 years now, with the 2011 winners to be announced on Tuesday.

Established in 1936 by the Canadian Authors Association, the awards are said to be Canada's oldest prizes for English-language and French-language Canadian literature.

Up until 1994, when the Scotiabank Giller Prize was founded, the GG fiction award was the only honour of its kind in Canada.

The language of the Roman Catholic Mass is about to change for the first time in nearly 40 years, as a new missal translation debuts throughout the English-speaking world on the last Sunday of the month.

Czech Ambassador to Korea Jaroslav Olsa, jr., said the Czech Republic has a love for Korea and the Korean literature in a uniquely measureable way at the “Czech-Korean Poetry Evening,”on Nov. 8.

Olsa said the high er of number of Czech translations of Korean poetry shows the close affinity Czechs feel toward Korea.

Beginning in August, 1969, French teacher Earl Comeaux and graphic artist Ken Meaux of Vermilion Parish began the country's first comic strip in Cajun French.

Three Irish novels have been nominated for the Impac Dublin Literary Award.

A Bíblia da Mulher atingiu, este ano, a marca de mais de 1 milhão de exemplares distribuídos, com novos recursos, formato e cores de capa ainda mais atraentes.

The voice-activated Siri assistant on Apple's iPhone 4S is a direct challenge to Google's search engine, chairman Eric Schmidt said.
"Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S," Schmidt acknowledged in a written response to lawmakers released Friday by the Senate antitrust subcommittee.

Lo divino en la comedia humana, En su voluminoso y olvidado libro sobre Balzac, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada se detiene a estudiar en un capítulo la importancia de la herencia y el azar en la Comedia humana y señala, justamente, que Ursule Mirouët...

The Selection Committee would ... like to request The Hindu to have, from next year onwards at least, separate awards of equal value for fiction written in English and that translated from the languages of India so that both receive equal attention and the process of selection is made a little easier since it is not often easy for a translation to compete with original English writing in terms of the fluency of style as the translation is obliged to retain certain modes and echoes of the original language and the specificities of the culture concerned. The award for the translated work will however not be a translation award, but one for translated fiction. We also recommend that the calendar year be the basis for nominations and not an arbitrarily chosen duration as it becomes difficult to authenticate the month of publication.

What should we think of this sharia affair? Could it be that we have supported the insurgents of Benghazi, only to discover, when it’s all over, a State that forbids divorce and re-establishes polygamy? Details. Explanations.
1. It all began with one phrase. A single phrase. Of course, this phrase didn’t come from just anyone, since it was uttered by Mustafa Abdeljalil, the President of the National Transitional Council and father of the victory. But, president or not, Abdeljalil is a member of a Council whose decisions are collegial. And this Council is, as its name indicates, an organ of transition whose purpose is not to decree the laws of the future Libya.

Se trata del volumen ampliado y traducido al inglés del Poemario sueños y cantares. Dreams and praises. Kerayvoty ha purahéi con traducción de Peter Tase.

El acto contó con la presencia de los autores y de los presentadores Shaw Gynan, sociolingüista, estudioso del guaraní y del bilingüismo paraguayo; Guliana Geron Pilon, directora del Centro de Cultura y Seguridad del Institute of World Politics de Washington; y otros representantes de la Universidad George Washington.