Marian Schwartz » Tolstoy http://marianschwartz.com Translations from the Russian Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:40:21 +0000 en hourly 1 Tolstoy translator: “This was a mammoth task” http://marianschwartz.com/2008/10/tolstoy-translator/ http://marianschwartz.com/2008/10/tolstoy-translator/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:03:43 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/2008/10/07/tolstoy-translator-this-was-a-mammoth-task/ Alison Flood speaks to Tolstoy translator Kyril Zinovieff about his new sixty-year-old translation of Anna Karenina in a Guardian Books podcast.

]]> http://marianschwartz.com/2008/10/tolstoy-translator/feed/ 0 Reading the World Conversation Series, Wednesday, October 1, 2008 http://marianschwartz.com/2008/09/reading-world-conversation-october-1-2008/ http://marianschwartz.com/2008/09/reading-world-conversation-october-1-2008/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:58:46 +0000 mbs http://marianschwartz.com/blog/2008/09/29/reading-the-world-conversation-series-wednesday-october-1-2008/ I’m going to be featured in this Translators Roundtable, discussing obstacles and opportunities related to literary translation.

The roundtable also includes Edward Gauvin, translator of French graphic novels filmscripts; Michael Emmerich, translator of young Japanese writers; and Martha Tennent, who translates Catalan literature.

This event is free and open to the public.

Reading the World Conversation Series is supported by the Open Letter, a literary press at the University of Rochester; the College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering; the Humanities Project; and the Friends of the Library. For information, call (585) 319-0823 or visit www.openletterbooks.org.

When and where: 5:00 to 6:30 pm, at the Rush Rhees Library, Plutzik Library, University of Rochester

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