Literary Translation at UEA

Publishing poetry in translation is something of a niche business, but it is a niche that Arc Publications has successfully made its own. I...

The Irish have a reputation for being inventive users of invective – I should know, I am Irish and have spent most of my adult life so far ...

Looking back at my work from the MA in Literary Translation, it has been the role of the reader and of the author that has continued to sha...

At the beginning of the year I asked one of the PhD students about the reputations of the various creative writing courses. He had somethin...

Onement VI   (Barnett Newman, 1953) On 14 th   May 2013, this work of art was sold for 44 million dollars. The people of the Internet r...

You might be forgiven that the title of this post refers to the cliché of how Anglophones often view French, the language from which I t...

All theatre requires us to suspend our disbelief. If we didn’t, we would be forever asking questions like: “How is it tomorrow already?” a...

MALT student Livvy Hanks is currently translating (at least part of) a poem every day, and blogging about it, in her own twist on 'Natio...

I’ve known people who read and love comics, but I have never been into any comics myself. It was simply a lack of exposure, I think, becau...

For the past few weeks, I have been absorbed in the translation of children’s literature. Before looking into this area of translation, ...

The Norwich Papers editorial team is pleased to announce its call for papers for Issue 22, to be published in 2014. The theme of the issue...

It’s a Saturday night and I have decided to translate Where the Wild Things Are. Sometimes people debate on which books can be considered ...

This semester my peers and I took to holding casual workshops of one another’s work between classes. As few people shared the language of t...

The preface is not something I had spent much time considering in my literary studies until now. In spite of a few notable exceptions (thin...

Translation can be a wonderful means of resistance in all sorts of ways. One of the most recent and prominent forms of resistance through t...