Want to find out about the craft of literary translation from an acclaimed writer and translator?
Then join us for this online masterclass with Jen Calleja, whose literary translation work has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize!
She will be talking about her creative processes, as a writer and as a literary translator, how they crossover and how they differ. Jen will offer insight into how writing and translation intersect for her, and how these practises impact each other.
She'll share her insight into building and nurturing the relationship between writer and translator, and address the question of how much of your own writerly voice to bring into a translation. And Jen will offer top tips for getting character, voice and setting across in another language.
Plus she'll talk about her journey to publication as both a writer and as a translator, and offer advice on how you can hone and develop your skills in the craft of literary translation.
This masterclass will take place online via Teams. It will also be recorded so if you are unable to attend live, you'll be able to catch-up and access the recording for up to two weeks after the event has taken place. The session will end with a Q&A, so come ready with your questions!
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in London.
Her fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry have appeared in The London Magazine, Ambit, Another Gaze, 3:AM, Somesuch Stories, Hotel, and in the anthologies On Relationships (3 of Cups, 2020) and Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry (Ignota, 2018). Her reviews and articles have been published by the TLS, History Today, Modern Poetry in Translation and the New Statesman, and she has had long-running columns on literature in translation in The Quietus and the Brixton Review of Books. She has translated over a dozen works of German-language literature, specialising in contemporary literary fiction and literary non-fiction. She was the inaugural Translator in Residence at the British Library, and her translations have featured in The New Yorker, Granta, The White Review, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for her translation of Marion Poschmann’s The Pine Islands (Serpent’s Tail), and for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2018 for Kerstin Hensel’s Dance by the Canal (Peirene Press).
Jen has published two collections of poetry, Serious Justice (Test Centre, 2016) and Hamburger in the Archive (if a leaf falls, 2019), both LRB Bookshop Staff Picks. Jen has published her novel Vehicle (Prototype, 2023) and a collection of short fiction, I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For (Prototype, 2020). Her book of essays Goblinhood is forthcoming (2024) from Rough Trade Books.
Photo credit: Robin Silas Christian
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