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Welcome to the 44th annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association. We are glad you're with us virtually, and we hope to see you in Tucson in November as well!
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Alessandro Vettori
Alex Braslavsky
Alexis Levitin
Allison Charette
Allison Charette
Allison Malecha
Allison Markin Powell
Almiro Andrade
Amaia Gabantxo
Ana Mendez-Oliver
Anam Zafar
Ania Aizman
Anna Halberstadt
Annie Fisher
Anushka Sen
Arturo Vasquez Barron
Aviya Kushner
Bilal Hashmi
Calvin Olsen
Candice Whitney
Catherine Boyle
Chad Post
Chenxin Jiang
Christina MacSweeney
Christine Gutman
Christine Swedowsky
David Gramling
Denise Kripper
Diana Thow
Didem Uca
Elina Alter
Ellen Elias-Bursac
Emma Ramadan
Ethan Nosowsky
Farid Matuk
Photo credit: Roberto “Bear” Guerra
Fatemeh Madani Sarbarani
Gabriela Jauregui
Genevieve Waite
George B. Henson
Ghazal Mosadeq
Ho Zhi-Hui
Jack Hargreaves
Jack Jung
Jake Schneider
Photo by José Ibañez
Jamie Richards
Jein Han
Jenna Tang
Jennifer Rathbun
Jennifer Shyue
Jeremy Tiang
Jessica Cohen
Jessica Friedman
Jessica Vocatura
Jon Cho-Polizzi
Josephine von Zitzewitz
Julia Sanches
Julie Swarstad Johnson
Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Katarína Koreňová
Katherine Hedeen
Katie Whittemore
Katie Whittemore
Kelsi Vanada
Program Manager @ ALTA
Kelsi Vanada is a poet and translator from Spanish and sometimes Swedish. Her translations include Damascus, Atlantis (Terra Nova Press, 2021), Into Muteness (Veliz Books, 2020), and The Eligible Age (Song Bridge Press, 2018), and she is the author of the poetry chapbook Rare Earth (Finishing Line Press, 2020). She holds MFAs in Poetry (Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2016) and Literary Translation (University of Iowa, 2017). She is the Program Manager of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, AZ.
Lara Norgaard
Layla Benitez-James
Lisa Dillman
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Lola Rogers
Lucy Scott
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Marian Schwartz
Marielle Sutherland
Mark Haber
Markéta Andričíková
Mauricio Espinoza
May Huang
Meena Kandasamy
Michelle Crowson
Nancy Naomi Carlson
Natascha Bruce
Nedra Rodrigo
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Olga Livshin
Pablo Brescia
Paulina Barrios
Regina Galasso
Robin Myers
Samantha Schnee
Sarah Blanton
Sarah Booker
Sean Bye
Serin Lee
Sherry Roush
Sneha Khaund
Soje
Umair Kazi
Violeta Orozco
Yilin Wang
Zoe Skoulding
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Agenda
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10:00 AM
- 11:00 AM
Join us as we revisit one of the most popular sessions from ALTA43: In Between, the 2020 virtual ALTA conference! This event is free and open to the public. We are delighted to have Open Letter Books' publisher Chad Post and translator Katie Whittemore, as they discuss best practices for pitching translation proposals to publishers, including, but not limited to, reader's reports, sample translations, query letters, and in person communication. Combining a publisher's viewpoint with successful anecdotes from an emerging translator, we hope to make attendees feel much more confident as they send their work into the world.
Moderator: Chad Post
Presenter(s): Katie Whittemore
Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.
Presenter(s): Katie Whittemore
Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.
Katie Whittemore translates from Spanish. She is the translator of Sara Mesa’s Four by Four (Open Letter Books) and forthcoming translations include novels by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, and Nuria Labari. Her translations have appeared in Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common, Gulf Coast, The Brooklyn Rail, EuropeNow, and InTranslation.
Please note that the captions in this video were generated by a live captioner for ALTA43, and so are not a perfect reflection of what the speakers said. For a more accurate transcript, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/3g7Py7G
Join us as we revisit one of the most popular sessions from ALTA43: In Between, the 2020 virtual ALTA conference! This event is free and open to the public. We are delighted to have Open Letter Books' publisher Chad Post and translator Katie Whittemore, as they discuss best practices for pitching translation proposals to publishers, including, but not limited to, reader's reports, sample translations, query letters, and in person communication. Combining a publisher's viewpoint with successful anecdotes from an emerging translator, we hope to make attendees feel much more confident as they send their work into the world.
Moderator: Chad Post
Presenter(s): Katie Whittemore
Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.
Presenter(s): Katie Whittemore
Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester.
Katie Whittemore translates from Spanish. She is the translator of Sara Mesa’s Four by Four (Open Letter Books) and forthcoming translations include novels by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, and Nuria Labari. Her translations have appeared in Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common, Gulf Coast, The Brooklyn Rail, EuropeNow, and InTranslation.
Please note that the captions in this video were generated by a live captioner for ALTA43, and so are not a perfect reflection of what the speakers said. For a more accurate transcript, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/3g7Py7G
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10:00 AM
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German-English Translation Slam: One Text, Two Translators, and No Wrong Answers (Free and open to the public)
This event is a collaboration between ALTA and SAND journal, is sponsored by Wunderbar Together, and is affiliated with the Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona.
Come join us for a lively, interactive event, where translators and non-translators alike get a peek inside the translation process—and the fact that different translations can be equally valid. Two translators will arrive having independently completed an English translation of the same German poem by Keça Filankes. They’ll read their translations, and then describe their choices, as well as cultural and linguistic aspects of the original poem. Which parts of each version will you prefer? Are there other possible translations that you might suggest? During the reading and moderated conversation, you’ll be invited to offer your own suggestions in the chat, and the event will conclude with a live Q&A.
SAND, a Berlin-based English literary and arts journal, was founded in 2009 and will be releasing its 23rd issue in October. Featuring work by writers, translators, and artists from around the world, SAND seeks out fresh and underrepresented perspectives—from more than 50 countries and territories so far, both English originals and translations.
Moderator: David Gramling
Participants: Didem Uca, Jon Cho-Polizzi
Joined by: Jake Schneider, SAND journal
This event will be CART-captioned.
This event will be CART-captioned.
German-English Translation Slam: One Text, Two Translators, and No Wrong Answers (Free and open to the public)
This event is a collaboration between ALTA and SAND journal, is sponsored by Wunderbar Together, and is affiliated with the Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona.
Come join us for a lively, interactive event, where translators and non-translators alike get a peek inside the translation process—and the fact that different translations can be equally valid. Two translators will arrive having independently completed an English translation of the same German poem by Keça Filankes. They’ll read their translations, and then describe their choices, as well as cultural and linguistic aspects of the original poem. Which parts of each version will you prefer? Are there other possible translations that you might suggest? During the reading and moderated conversation, you’ll be invited to offer your own suggestions in the chat, and the event will conclude with a live Q&A.
SAND, a Berlin-based English literary and arts journal, was founded in 2009 and will be releasing its 23rd issue in October. Featuring work by writers, translators, and artists from around the world, SAND seeks out fresh and underrepresented perspectives—from more than 50 countries and territories so far, both English originals and translations.
Moderator: David Gramling
Participants: Didem Uca, Jon Cho-Polizzi
Joined by: Jake Schneider, SAND journal
This event will be CART-captioned.
This event will be CART-captioned.
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3:45 PM
- 4:15 PM
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4:00 PM
- 5:00 PM
Inflection Points: A Gallery Talk on Poetry in Translation (Free and open to the public)
This event is a collaboration between ALTA and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and is hosted by The Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona. It can be accessed in InEvent, or by signing up on the Tucson Humanities Festival’s website.
As we emerge from this time of crisis, how might the field of literary translation chart new trajectories and imagine new narratives of possibility? Four translators of poetry—Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Arabic, French, German), Alex Braslavsky (Polish, Russian), Jein Han (Korean), and Farid Matuk (Spanish)—will discuss how this question informed their process of curating works for "Inflection Points," a digital exhibition presented by the Poetry Center in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association. Curators will highlight pieces from the exhibit and explore the potential for poetry to cross boundaries of language, culture, place, and time.
Moderator: Julie Swarstad Johnson
This event will be CART-captioned.
Inflection Points: A Gallery Talk on Poetry in Translation (Free and open to the public)
This event is a collaboration between ALTA and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and is hosted by The Tucson Humanities Festival at the University of Arizona. It can be accessed in InEvent, or by signing up on the Tucson Humanities Festival’s website.
As we emerge from this time of crisis, how might the field of literary translation chart new trajectories and imagine new narratives of possibility? Four translators of poetry—Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Arabic, French, German), Alex Braslavsky (Polish, Russian), Jein Han (Korean), and Farid Matuk (Spanish)—will discuss how this question informed their process of curating works for "Inflection Points," a digital exhibition presented by the Poetry Center in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association. Curators will highlight pieces from the exhibit and explore the potential for poetry to cross boundaries of language, culture, place, and time.
Moderator: Julie Swarstad Johnson
This event will be CART-captioned.
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8:50 AM
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