Peter Filkins, Bard College at Simon’s Rock

Renowned translator Peter Filkins offers a master class discussion about the challenges and rewards of the art of translation. Through examples of his own translations of Ingeborg Bachmann and H.G. Adler, as well considerations of other poems and prose, Filkins will discuss how translation informs both literature and creative writing as an art form.

His translation of H.G. Adler’s Panorama is getting a lot of press right now, including a review in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review and a very interesting piece by Ruth Franklin in the New Yorker (http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2011-01-31#folio=074). No special knowledge of a foreign language is needed to enjoy and take part in the discussion.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, the programs in German and Translation, and the Master of Arts in Language, Literature, and Translation, UWM.