Globalisation, new technologies, artificial intelligence and publishing trends are reshaping the complex art of translation. In this future-facing discussion, three award-winning translators explore these challenges and opportunities.
Poet and adjunct associate professor at Western Sydney University Chris Andrews is joined by multilingual writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, and author and Deputy Editor of Sydney Review of Books Tiffany Tsao, who between then speak and write in more than ten languages.
How does the relationship between author and translator function? How creative is the translator’s role? Can AI replace human translators? And how can the industry better support authors to get their work into global markets?
This event is supported by Western Sydney University.
Chris Andrews is an adjunct associate professor at Western Sydney University. He has translated books of prose fiction by Kaouther Adimi, César Aira, Selva Almada, Roberto Bolaño, Liliana Colanzi and Ágota Kristóf, among other authors. His study of the Oulipo, How to Do Things with Forms, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2022. The Oblong Plot is his third collection of poetry.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar writes in English; translates from Santali, Hindi, and Bengali to English; and occasionally translates from English to Hindi. He is the author of the novels, The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (winner of a Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in English) and My Father’s Garden (shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature), and the collection of stories, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (shortlisted for The Hindu Prize).
Tiffany Tsao is a novelist and literary translator. Her translations of Indonesian fiction and poetry have been awarded the NSW Premier's Translation Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her third novel, Under Your Wings (released in the US at The Majesties) was longlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. Tiffany holds a PhD in English from UC-Berkeley and works as Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books.
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