Translating Punctuation: A Roundtable Discussion

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A roundtable discussion on translating punctuation with poets, translators, and poets-translators working across different languages.

St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 7

Oxford Translation Day 2023

The annual Oxford Translation Day celebrates literary translation with an exciting and vibrant range of workshops, readings, and talks, culminating in the award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

In many languages, punctuation marks abound in written texts. But when does an exclamation point indicate emphasis or a scream? When is a semi-colon a pause or a question? What these typographical signs mean and how they shape our reading of a text differ significantly across languages and scripts. This roundtable will gather poets, translators, and poet-translators working in Hebrew, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Chinese (among other languages) for a lively discussion on the translation and translatability of punctuation.Adriana X. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Oxford and author of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2018). Her translations of contemporary Hebrew poetry include Vaan Nguyen’s The Truffle Eye (Zephyr Press, 2021), for which she was awarded the 2022 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Merav Givoni Hrushovski's End— (Carrion Bloom Books, 2023).Shira Stav is Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University. She has been a research fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadephia, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University, among others. Stav is an award-winning poet, whose work has been translated into English, German, and Arabic. Her translations into Hebrew include collections by Sharon Olds (The Floor of Our Life, 2017) and by Ocean Vuong (The Last Prom Queen in Antarctica, 2023), as well as Hebrew translations of poetry by Margaret Atwood, Louise Glück, Carolyn Forché, Robert Bly, and many others.Juliana Buriticá Alzate is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Japanese Literature at the University of Oxford. Her research brings together queer and feminist theory to explore representations of mothering and related embodied experiences in contemporary Japanese fiction. She has translated Aoko Matsuda’s Where The Wild Ladies Are into Spanish (Quaterni, 2022) and is currently working on a collection of poetry by Hiromi Itō, forthcoming in 2023 by Insensata.Coraline Jortay is the Laming Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and a translator of Sinophone fiction and poetry into French. Her recent book-length translations include Le Banquet aphrodisiaque by Li Ang (L’Asiathèque, forthcoming 2023) and Les Sentiers des rêves by Walis Nokan (L’Asiathèque, 2018). In 2014, she was awarded the second and third prize of the China International Translation Contest. A co-editor with Gwennaël Gaffric of the anthology Hong Kong (Jentayu, 2022), she has translated short fiction and poetry from Taiwan and Hong Kong for a range of literary magazines, including Jentayu, Lettres de Malaisie, and Graminées.S﻿ee the full programme for Oxford Translation Day 2023 <a href="https://occt.web.ox.ac.uk/oxford-translation-day-2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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