Award-winning Canadian poet, prose writer, translator, and classicist Anne Carson (b. 1950) on translation, from a 2001 discussion with Brighde Mullin for the Lannan Foundation. Carson describes how her approach to translation changes based on the purpose of the project. She compares her “kind of wacky” translations of... See more

“I would agree that translation is impossible. But I guess it depends on how I define translation, because I do think that equivalence is a fantasy” In this interview excerpt, @yuchenyuchen explores the possibility of translation as something beyond simply finding a match between languages. ... See more