Translations That Work

17/10/2026

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-carson

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

14/10/2026

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vyl5FkkjZck

Wenn über 30 introvertierte Literaturübersetzer*innen aus der Unsic...

13/10/2026

Neue Betrrugsmasche

13/10/2026

Bevor es morgen mit einer neuen Folge Überübersetzen weitergeht, denken wir nochmal an unser schönes Gespräch mit Uma Tokhi Piracha über mehrsprachige Kinderbücher.

Gefördert durch den Deutschen Übersetzerfonds und den Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

12/10/2026

Aaaand, drumroll please, the first episode is out!

Andie Ho is a Houston-based French-to-English translator who has expanded into the world of audiobooks and, impressively, has stepped up to being a candidate for political office as a self-described introvert.

We had a lot of fun with this one, and I chose it as the first episode to give her some exposure before the midterms.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think!
And of course, subscribe, share, like, all that stuff, pretty please and thank you!

(Also, kindly be forgiving: This is my first foray into podcasting, and there is definitely an audio, video and camera/mic presence learning curve going on!)

Links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube in the comments.

And HUGE thanks to all who encouraged me to just go for it - another takeaway from this hugely inspiring convo!

12/10/2026

Herzliche Einladung zur Antrittsvorlesung der August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessorin Larissa Bender!

Die in Köln lebende Übersetzerin Larissa Bender wird im Wintersemester 2026/27 die August-Wilhelm-von-Schlegel-Gastprofessur für Poetik der Übersetzung bekleiden.
Die vom Deutschen Übersetzerfonds und der Freien Universität Berlin 2007 ins Leben gerufene Gastprofessur ist die erste Professur für Poetik der Übersetzung im deutschsprachigen Raum und wird jährlich am Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft eingerichtet.

Larissa Benders öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung findet am 5. November 2026, 19 Uhr im Refugio Berlin statt.

Info und Anmeldung auf www.uebersetzerfonds.de

08/10/2026

‘Nox’ is an unforgettable work by this year’s literature laureate Anne Carson.

Published in 2010, it was written in memory of her brother Michael, who was mysteriously absent prior to his death in Denmark in 2000. Palpable here is a deep sense of loss that works its way up from below.

The result is a creation as sculptural as it is literary, an epitaph in the form of a box containing an accordion-fold-out of pictures, letters and other written texts dedicated to her dead brother. There is moreover a third voice that provides temporal depth in the shape of the Roman poet Catullus, with his famous elegy 101 in honour of his own departed brother, who like Michael died on foreign soil. Present also is Carson’s moving translation of the poem.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Discover more about the literary world of this year’s laureate: https://bit.ly/4hnkhNO

08/10/2026

Lea Hübner stellt gerade ihre neueste Übersetzung DEA CHRISTI am Stand der BücherFrauen vor. Danke.

Am 12.10. stellt Lea das Buch um 19 Uhr im Instituto Cervantes, Berlin vor.

06/10/2026