Forrest Gander: The Art of Translation

Lesung I internationales literaturfestival berlin

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019, Forrest Gander, has stated that he always comes back from translation a changed person. As a translator, he focuses on contempo-rary Latin American poets Pura López Colomé, Coral Bracho, Valerie Mejer Caso, Alfonso D’Aquino, and Jaime Saenz, the poems by Chilean Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, and the translation and editing of poems by Japanese poets Ki-wao Nomura and Yoshimasu Gozo. His lecture on the art of translation will be followed by a moderated discussion. Forrest Gander will participate remotely.

The event is held in English.

Reflections
HostBeatrice Faßbender
Price 10 Euros / reduced 6

This event will be streamed live to our website www.literaturfestival.com