Conversations about Literature & Translation: Alicia Borinsky with Robert Croll (11.02.21)
Join us on Tuesday, November 2, at 2 PM for a Conversation about Literature & Translation event with Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish, and Robert Croll. The topic of conversation is Hebe Uhart’s Animals (Animales) and Croll’s recent translation from the Spanish for Archipelago Books.
Hebe Uhart (1936-2018) is one of Argentina’s most celebrated contemporary writers. “Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt’s house, and, of course, human animals, whose presence is treated with the same inquisitive sharpness that marks all of Uhart’s work.”
Robert Croll is a writer, translator, and editor originally from Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from Amherst College in 2016 with a degree in Architectural Studies and Spanish and currently lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a translator, his focus is on contemporary Latin American literature; he has worked on texts by such authors as Ricardo Piglia, Hebe Uhart, Julio Cortázar, Gustavo Roldán, Javier Sinay, and Juan Carlos Onetti.
Alicia Borinsky is a fiction writer, poet and literary critic who has published extensively in English and Spanish in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Her most recent books are Low Blows/Golpes Bajos (short fictions), Frivolous Women and Other Sinners (poetry), both published bilingually, and One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile (literary criticism). Professor Borinsky is the recipient of several awards, including the Latino Literature Prize for Fiction and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her research interests include the theory and practice of literary translation, trans-national cultural studies, contemporary gender and literary theory, Latino literature and the legacy of the Latin American avant-garde from Huidobro to Borges and the writers of the “Boom” to the present.
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When: November 2, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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