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Join us for this special occasion as we welcome our guest Michael Schmidt to the experience of translating a poem by Ramón López Velarde The Instituto Cervantes in Manchester invites you to join a literary translation workshop from Spanish into English, led by the literary translator Michael Schmidt. We are especially delighted to welcome him on this occasion. Working with a poem by Ramón López Velarde (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_L%C3%B3pez_Velarde) (México, 1888-1921), the session will explore the challenges and nuances of poetic translation. "It is a real challenge to translate the social and period tone of a poem that moves you: the otherness of the language you’re translating from becomes even more other when it comes to bringing over feeling. The host language has to stretch and expand to accommodate the rhythms, diction and even the climate and geography of the poem it is coaxing over the linguistic line; and hardest of all in this poem are the tone of the narrator and the answering tone of the subject, or the object, of his attention." (Michael Schmidt) Michael Schmidt was born and raised in Mexico. He is a founder and general editor of the magazine PN Review and founder and editorial director of Carcanet Press Ltd, author of Lives of the Poets, Lives of the First Poets, The Novel: a biography, and Gilgamesh: the life of a Poem. He has edited several anthologies, and his Collected Poems was published in 2009. His translations include On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz and, with Ed Kissam, Poems of the Aztec People. Participants will receive the texts in advance so they can bring their translation proposals to the session Further information at: bibman@cervantes.es Want to learn Spanish? Why learn Spanish at the Instituto Cervantes? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMfZ-MZuZM&list=PLYQP8SLo8l1ozGyt-hbs0N-zVbwKUjlRr&index=1) We have online and in-person language classes for all levels. See our schedule here (https://manchester.cervantes.es/en/courses_spanish/spanish_courses.htm). En el Instituto Cervantes in Manchester estamos encantados invitarte a este taller de traducción literaria del español al inglés, impartido por el traductor literario Michael Schmidt sobre un poema de Ramón López Velarde (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_L%C3%B3pez_Velarde) (México, 1888-1921). "Es un auténtico desafío traducir el trasfondo social y el tono de la época en que se escribió un poema que te conmueve: la otredad de la lengua de la que estás traduciendo se vuelve aún más otra cuando se trata de trasladar el sentimiento. La lengua que lo recibe tiene que estirarse y expandirse para acomodar los ritmos, la dicción, e incluso el clima y la geografía que dócilmente van cruzando la línea que separa las lenguas. Y, en este poema en concreto, la mayor dificultad reside en el tono del narrador y el tono de respuesta del sujeto u objeto de su atención.” (Michael Schmidt) Michael Schmidt nació y se crio en México. Fundó y dirige la revista PN Review y también la editorial Carcanet Press Ltd. Es autor de Lives of the Poets, Lives of the First Poets, The Novel: a biography, and Gilgamesh: the life of a Poem y también de varias antologías poéticas y una obra completa publicada en 2009. Entre sus traducciones figuran On Poets and Others, de Octavio Paz y, junto a Ed Kissam, Poems of the Aztec People. Los inscritos recibirán con antelación los textos para comentar en la sesión su propuesta de traducción. Más información en: bibman@cervantes.es

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