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BBC Free Thinking Mocking Power Past and Present
BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on 4th February 2020 takes as its cue the most recent incarnation of the arch German prankster Tyll Ulenspiegel, who has been resurrected from the Middle Ages in the midst of the Thirty Years War in best-selling novelist Daniel Kehlmann’ s 2017 Tyll, now published in English in the translation by Ross Benjamin.
Ulrike Draesner in Oxford
Just a teaser to warn you that Ulrike Draesner, fomer Writer in Resience at New College, will be back in Oxford in February reading, writing and leading translation and creative writing seminars. More news soon!
Karen Leeder appears on the Verb
Karen Leeder appears on BBC Radio 3 The Verb with Ian Macmillan, Durs Grünbein, Nora Gomringer, and Ira Lightman discussing German Poestry Thirty years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Witness History: 'I was there the night the wall came down'
Special event in the #ColdWarSeason
Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners
Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners will gather 50 leading translation practitioners from around the world to discuss the practice of translating poetry. This two-day event will be hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre and SOAS University of London with support from Commonwealth Writers, Literature Across Frontiers and the National Centre for Writing.
The aims of the symposium are: