translation

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of...

At the Film Forum in New York from April 3-18.

The launch of the new translation of Calvino's novel “The Baron in the Trees” gives NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò the chance to bring Giovanna Calvino and Richard Gere together. “‘The Baron in the Trees’ is the world of dreams I...

If you ask Google to translate "awkward" into italian, you get several results, but in Italy we don't have "awkwardness". For example Jane Tylus, a professor of Italian at New York University, confirmed that there is no direct Italian translation...

Pirandello 150 is a one-year long celebration that tributes Luigi Pirandello’s talent and literary production: Artistic Director John Martello tells us about the festival and about his aim to bring audiences to the Sicilian playwright’s work.

"Translators are the gatekeepers of the palace: without them you don’t enter” — Salman Rushdie celebrates the underestimated art of translation in a successful annual of the Festival with more than 40 authors, poets, translators, journalists.

Ludwig’s algorithm draws from a huge database containing texts written by journalists, writers, researchers and other scholars, expanding the amount of reliable sentences to compare with one’s own translation. We interviewed Roberta Pellegrini, co-founder of the project
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At Montclair State University, writer Amara Lakhous, spoke about languages, migrations and translations in conversation with Ann Goldstein, an editor at The New Yorker and translator of Italian literature and Michael Reynolds editor-in-chief at Europa Editions (Leggi in Italiano)