The Art of Translation: Great Writers Great Readers

Join our speakers -- Jenny McPhee, Ann Goldstein, and Giovanna Calvino -- for a discussion of the art of translation, women, and Italian literature. They have translated works by Natalia Ginzburg, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Elena Ferrante, and Anna Maria Ortese, and they will talk about those experiences: the process for translation, why it is important, how translations endure over time, why works need to be retranslated, how we build a readership for works in translation, why Ferrante became so wildly popular while Ginzburg did not. These topics and many others were explored.

Recorded March 14, 2018