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Biased and unprofessional reports on German books, translation issues and life in Berlin

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

Unashamedly Off-Topic

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Morris dancing , eh? Watching this lovely Guardian slide-show brought it all flooding back. I remember our school May Day celebration - it ...
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Translating Shakespeare

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In the Guardian books blog , Nicholas Lezard rants and rages against a "translation" of Shakespeare into yoofspeak. Most people h...
Friday, 25 April 2008

Prizewinning Zaimoglu Translation

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"Inspired" by three percent , I see that three American PhD students, Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis and Priscilla Layne, have won...
Thursday, 24 April 2008

More Meyer

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Mister Clemens Meyer read at the Literary Colloquium last night. I went along, accompanied in the carriage out to Wannsee by fourteen cha...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Translation Idol

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no man’s land literary translation lab presents: Translation Idol – no man’s land sucht den Superübersetzer* Marking the first anniversary o...
Monday, 21 April 2008

More Unpacking

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Speak of the devil. No sooner do I mention the lovely Dorota Stroinska in my last post, and she goes and reveals all in a library. Not in th...

The Boy with the Robber's Hands

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I finished it a couple of days ago - Finn-Ole Heinrich's Räuberhände . It's the story of two boys - one has the perfect parents to t...
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