Reading with Style discussion

In honor of Uri Orlev, read a book by an author who spent time as a translator.

For suggestions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Please post any questions or comments about task 20.9 in this thread.

You will likely see other authors, but these are pre-approved ones seen quickly from the list.

Vladimir Nabokov
Jhumpa Lahiri
Robert Graves
Dorothy L. Sayers
Jorge Luis Borges
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tobias Smollett
W.H. Auden
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Frank O'Connor
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Eliot
Haruki Murakami
Italo Calvino
Cesare Pavese
Ivan Bunin
Boris Pasternak
Javier Marias
Aphra Behn
Mary E. Ireland
Jeanine Delpech

Ken Liu please

He translated books 1 & 3 of Remembrance of Earth's Past (Chinese to English)

Tien wrote: "Ken Liu please

He translated books 1 & 3 of Remembrance of Earth's Past (Chinese to English)"

Lovely!

Tien wrote: "Ken Liu please

He translated books 1 & 3 of Remembrance of Earth's Past (Chinese to English)"

I was just coming here to add this. He also translated The Three-Body Problem and the other two in the trilogy.

The series is called Remembrance of the Earth's Past, Joanna ;)

I get confused too lol

Tien wrote: "The series is called Remembrance of the Earth's Past, Joanna ;)

I get confused too lol"

Duh! Thanks for putting up with me...

Andrew Lang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

Rebekah wrote: "Andrew Lang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_..."

Got him!

C. S. Lewis
https://www.booksandculture.com/artic...

got him!

This one has made it onto my reading radar as it has won SF/F awards:
Amatka (2012) by Karin Tidbeck
It does not say this on goodreads, however, in the ISFDB (The Internet Speculative Fiction Database) it says that the author wrote the novel in Swedish and then she translated her book into English. Here's the link:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.c...

Does this qualify? As I don't know if she translated anything other than her own book, but ISFDB says that she translated her own book.

At any rate, I got a copy from the library and so will give it a try --

Deedee wrote: "This one has made it onto my reading radar as it has won SF/F awards:
Amatka (2012) by Karin Tidbeck
It does not say this on goodreads, however, in the ISFDB (The ..."

Sorry for taking so long to respond, Deedee. It isn't something we anticipated, but the task doesn't prevent it. You are welcome to claim that book for this task.

Will Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o work here as another author who has translated his own work?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...

Karen Michele wrote: "Will Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o work here as another author who has translated his own work?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/202......"

Yes, we will accept those who have translated their own work. Please remind us when you post.

In looking up a new book for task 20.3, I came across this description of The Notebooks by that said it was translated by Paul Auster by Joseph Joubert.

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/nyrb...

Rebekah wrote: "In looking up a new book for task 20.3, I came across this description of The Notebooks by that said it was translated by Paul Auster by Joseph Joubert.

https://www.nyrb.com/collections/nyrb...-..."

Nice! Paul Auster!

I'd like to use Andrés Barba.

Here's the Wiki with info!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...

Rachel wrote: "I'd like to use Andrés Barba.

Here's the Wiki with info!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3..."

Nice!

Please confirm: J.M. Coetzee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._C...

Tien wrote: "Please confirm: J.M. Coetzee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._C..."

Yes! Nice find!

Another self translator. Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen

Please see https://wikideck.com/Self-translation

“Some of the prominent self-translators are Chaucer,[17] Thomas More,[18] Vladimir Nabokov,[19] Samuel Beckett,[1] Karen Blixen,[20] Chinghiz Aitmatov and Julien Green.[21] According to Julio-César Santoyo the history of self-translation can be traced back to the Middle Ages.[22]”

Edith Pargeter (a.k.a. Ellis Peters) was honored for translating Czech classics per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_P...

Owlette wrote: "Edith Pargeter (a.k.a. Ellis Peters) was honored for translating Czech classics per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_P..."

Nice!

John Fowles translated Ourika and other works from the French: https://www.fowlesbooks.com/biography...

I learned about this work by watching a BookTuber.

Owlette wrote: "John Fowles translated Ourika and other works from the French: https://www.fowlesbooks.com/biography...

I learned about this work by watching a BookTuber."

Excellent!

Kerry Greenwood

From 3rd paragraph of http://phrynefisher.com/aboutkerry.html:

"Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume-maker, cook and is currently a solicitor."

Lagullande wrote: "Kerry Greenwood

From 3rd paragraph of http://phrynefisher.com/aboutkerry.html:

"Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume-m..."

Nice!

I make a remark a few moments ago in the socializing thread that led me to see Ken Liu is a translator. This, for you science fiction/fantasy readers. ;-)

Thanks Elizbeth! I have a book or two of his on my shelf!

Ivan Turgenev "was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Tu...

Tien wrote: "Ivan Turgenev "was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turg..."

Great!

I know this is late in season. In the audiobook Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross there is an epilogue narrated by author explaining more about the legend of Pope Joan and her sources. One source was a novel written by a Greek scholar who defended the female pope as historically true.
She said the book had been translated by Lawrence Durrell

I looked it up in Wikipedia and this is what is written;
“In 1866 Rhoides published a controversial novel, The Papess Joanne (Ἡ Πάπισσα Ἰωάννα), an exploration of the legend of Pope Joan, a supposed female pope who reigned some time in the ninth or tenth century (which was in fact a time of great turmoil for the papacy). Though a romantic novel with satirical overtones, Rhoides asserted it contained conclusive evidence that Pope Joan truly existed and that the Catholic Church had been attempting to cover up the fact for centuries. The novel was admired by Mark Twain and Alfred Jarry and freely translated by Lawrence Durrell as The Curious History of Pope Joan in 1954.”

I found Maj Sjöwall in the Wikipedia list of women translators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

For you science fiction readers, I just saw

Alex Shvartsman

is a translator. Sorry this is coming so late in the season.

I saw a completed task posted a day ago of a book by Ellis Peters, but Translator combo was not claimed.

Owlette wrote: "I saw a completed task posted a day ago of a book by Ellis Peters, but Translator combo was not claimed."

Thanks! We'll correct it.