Tuesday, June 09, 2009

News at Eleven: But why does the translator matter?

Well, for starters, the translator is an artist, too, [Tsipi] Keller insists in her introduction. She got started in translation while reading Ein Leben, a poem by Dan Pagis. She "began to hear it in English," she writes. "The poem sang to me in Hebrew and then resonated and 'sang' to me in English, and being a writer I had to translate it."

from The Jerusalem Post: The motion behind poetry

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