The Translator as Liberator: Finding the Echoes in Translation

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BCLT Research Seminar with Laura McGloughlin - The Translator as Liberator: Finding the Echoes in Translation

This seminar focuses on the idea of echoes in translation – linguistic echoes, like other languages/dialects that the translator moves through while translating, and literary echoes in the texts that echo through a translator’s mind and feel like kin to the text being translated. How does the translator respond to these echoes she uncovers, and how does that impact on the process?

Laura McGloughlin has been a freelance translator from Catalan and Spanish since completing a Masters in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia in 2007. She was awarded the inaugural British Centre for Literary Translation Catalan-English Translation Mentorship in 2011. Among others she has translated work by Bel Olid, Llüisa Cunillé, Maria Barbal, Flavia Company, Toni Hill Gumbao, and Joan Brossa, as well as director Carlos Saura, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in Barcelona, and the Association of Writers in Catalan (AELC). Her most recent publication is a translation of Wilder Winds by Bel Olid (Fum d’Estampa Press, 2022). Laura is currently Translator in Residence at BCLT.

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