Status Updates From Fair: The Life-Art of Trans...

"Your translations can never be signed off fully, not by the author or the editor, it's up to you to be satisfied, knowing that you worked - pretty much - completely on your own, and I can be at peace with letting things go."

Jen Calleja i LOVE you

already obsessed with this

already obsessed with

Should I… get another Masters in literary translation? 👀

Really interesting so far, so many bits have me nodding my head.
It’s an account of her ‘journey’ into translation, but framed as a tour through a gallery/fair. Creates a fascinating external perspective of her own life, a sense of omniscience.

A hall of mirrors representing the process of translating a sentence.
Translation duels (apparently a real thing that happens at book fairs and lit fests?!)

Already potentially best book of the year