Author Boyd Tonkin wrote that, ‘To write, and to read, is to forever cross thresholds’. Translation opens up new vistas, refreshes language and fosters globalism. In a world where English is the lingua franca, translation enables authors to speak to far-flung audiences. Anna Blasiak, who translated the acclaimed Holocaust journal Renia’s Diary, Peter Filkins, translator, and biographer of H.G. Adler and Ros Schwartz, a translator from French of fiction and non-fiction to discuss the challenges, the joys and the pitfalls.
An event from Jewish Book Week 2020.
