Translation as Transhumance

This half-memoir, half-philosophical treatise is a meditation on the art of translation, and its potential for activism and humanist engagement.

Author: Mireille Gansel
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 11/14/2017
Pages: 150
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781558614444
ISBN10: 1558614443
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General

About the Author
Mireille Gansel, who taught German at the University of Lyon, has published translations of a number of distinguished poets including Nelly Sachs, Peter Huchel and Reiner Kunze, as well as letters by Paul Celan. After living for a time in Hanoi in the seventies, she published a volume of classical Vietnamese poetry translated into French.

Ros Schwartz has translated a wide range of Francophone fiction and non-fiction authors. In 2010 she published a new translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, and is currently involved in re-translating a number of Georges Simenon works for Penguin Classics' new Georges Simenon editions. In 2009, she was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.