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michael-moore-traduttore

Arts - 3 Aprile

Michael F. Moore – Relearning History and Questioning the Present by Translating

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

Gere-Calvino-podio

Arts - 27 Ottobre 2017

Richard Gere Reads Italo Calvino with the “Baron’s Daughter”

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 would like to live”, says the actor. Gere sounds eloquent, savvy, sophisticated in the way he associates the writer’s work to other masters of international literature

Akward-italian-struggles

Lifestyles - 11 Ottobre 2017

My “Awkward” Struggles as an Italian in New York (It’s Not About the Food)

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 of the word “awkward” intended as discomfort in a social setting. I came up with a solution: Awkward-phobic Americans should take a vacation to Italy.

pirandello-150-film-forum

Arts - 11 Gennaio 2017

Pirandello 150: A Birthday Celebration at Film Forum

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.

New Literature From Europe Festival 2016

Arts - 19 Dicembre 2016

NLE: a tribute to translation, the ugly duckling art

"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

Lifestyles - 8 Luglio 2016

I Wrote this with the Help of Ludwig

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 .

Ann Goldstein, Teresa Fiore, Amara Lakhous, Michael Reynolds

English - 7 Maggio 2015

Amara Lakhous and his Migrating Languages

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)

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