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Las Biuty Queens, a story collection by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by alumna Hannah Kauders '20, will be released by Astra House on June 1, 2021.
Our Word, a student organization dedicated to enriching the Columbia University School of the Arts and the surrounding literary community with outreach, advocacy, and inclusion of new and old literary voices, recently hosted author and journalist Mariana Enriquez for a reading and evening of conversation.
Alumna and Adjunct Professor Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17 recently published her latest translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen's poetry, Outgoing Vessel, from the Danish through Action Books.
Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC), a component of the Columbia University MFA Writing Program, welcomed acclaimed poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu last month for a lecture and discussion.
Writing alumnus Lytton Smith ’07 has published two books: The Square, a chapbook of poems about protest movements (New Michigan Press) and On Time and Water, a translation of a groundbreaking Icelandic book about climate change (Open Letter).
Associate Professor Susan Bernofsky was among the featured speakers at The Universidad Diego Portales’ symposium on literary translation. Bernofsky joined several other speakers in conversation about the act of creating space for reflection in and around the art of literary translation.
Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Susan Bernofsky about her translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, how a single word can illuminate important artistic tendencies, and her approaches to teaching translation.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and alumna Katrine Øgaard Jensen ’17 was selected for the Danish Arts Foundation’s two-year fellowship ‘The Young Artistic Elite.’
Columbia University School of the Arts’ International Play Reading Festival went digital this year.
The Columbia University School of the Arts hosted the third listening party of its 2020 International Play Reading Festival series with May 35th, written by Candace Chong Mui Ngam.
The Columbia University School of the Arts continued its second week of the International Play Reading Festival with a reading of Taxi Radio written (and translated from the Thai) by Nophand.
The Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival kicked off its third year (and first virtual run) this month with a reading of Rarámuri Dreams written by Camila Villegas. Villegas is a Mexican playwright who after studying economics and living for two years with the Tarahumaras—an indigenous community of Northern Mexico—redirected her career towards theatre.