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Brooks Haxton Reads at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference 2018

Brooks Haxton reads his poems, “Mister Toebones, Called in Several Languages the Reaper” and “Tracks Everywhere at Noon” at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Haxton is the author of eight books of original poetry, four books of translations from Classical Greek, French, and German, and a nonfiction account of his son’s career in high-stakes poker. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others, Haxton has taught for more than twenty years in the graduate writing programs at Syracuse University and Warren Wilson College. He lives in Manlius, New York, with his wife, a psychiatrist.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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Susan Bernofsky Reads at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference 2018

Susan Bernofsky reads an excerpt from her translation of  Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear at the 2018 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

Susan Bernofsky directs the program Literary Translation at Columbia in the MFA Writing Program in the Columbia University School of the Arts. Among her many published translations are retranslations of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha (2006), Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (2014), and Jeremias Gotthelf’s The Black Spider (2013). She specializes in the work of the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser—she has translated eight of his books, including Microscripts, Berlin Stories, The Walk, and Looking at Pictures, and is currently writing his biography for Yale University Press.

Bernofsky’s 2014 translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel The End of Days won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, the Ungar Award for Literary Translation, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2014 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Her previous awards include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize and the 2012 Hermann Hesse Translation Prize of the City of Calw, as well as grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the PEN Translation Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Lannan Foundation. She blogs about translation at www.translationista.com. More information at www.susanbernofsky.com.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

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Emily Wilson and “The Odyssey” at the 2018 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

Emily Wilson discusses and reads from her translation of Homer’s The Odyssey at the 2018 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. During her lecture, she details her process of translating the work in a way that incorporates it “vividness” as well as its complexity and ambivalence towards its main character.

Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include The Death of Socrates, 2007, and a translation of selected tragedies by Seneca, 2010. She has served as the Classics editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature for many years; the latest revised edition of the anthology appeared in January 2018. She published The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca, in 2014, and four translations of plays by Euripides in the Modern Library The Greek Plays, 2016. Her new verse translation of the Odyssey was published in November 2017.  She is currently working on a book about translation, gender and the Graeco-Roman classics.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available in their entirety online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

Calling all translators!

Bread Loaf Translators Conference is open for applications

The fourth annual Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference will take place in Ripton, Vermont, June 1 – 7, 2018. This is a great opportunity for both emerging and established translators to take part in workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, to attend lectures, craft classes, and readings, and to meet with editors (including from NER!) and agents—all on the Bread Loaf mountain campus.

Faculty: Kazim Ali, Susan Bernofsky, Mónica de la Torre, Bill Johnston, and Sora Kim-Russell.

Guests: John Donatich, Director, Yale University Press; Katie Dublinski, Associate Publisher, Graywolf Press; Markus Hoffmann, Co-owner, Regal Hoffmann & Associates LLC; Tynan Kogane, Editor, New Directions; Carolyn Kuebler, Editor, New England Review; and Chad W. Post, Publisher, Open Letter.

Tuition, Room, and Board: participant with a manuscript, $2,290; auditor without a manuscript, $1,950; financial aid is available; $15 application fee.

Rolling admissions through February 15; apply early, space is limited.

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