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\"\"<\/a>The annual conference<\/a> of the American Literary Translators Association<\/a> begins today, in Rochester, NY. In addition to the scheduled events<\/a>–such as a plenary address by Is That a <\/em>Fish in Your Ear?<\/em><\/a> author David Bellos–there will also be recently added tributes to Michael Henry Heim<\/a>, the master translator who passed away this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association begins today, in Rochester, NY. In addition to the scheduled events–such as a plenary address by Is That a Fish in Your Ear? author David Bellos–there will also be recently added … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[118,56,726],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-k7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4329,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4329","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":0},"title":"Klein\u2019s Duo Duo Receives 2019 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grants","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"My translation of the New and Selected poems of Duo Duo \u591a\u591a, forthcoming from Yale University Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series, the working title of which is Words as Grains, has received a 2019 PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant! Now in its sixteenth year, the PEN\/Heim Translation Fund awards\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2019-heim-translation-banner-960-280.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":574,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=574","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":1},"title":"ALTA Write-up","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Russian translation magazine Apraksin Blues is hosting James Manteith's write-up on last November's ALTA conference in Kansas City. Manteith writes: The theme of country\u2019s need for practitioners of the art of translation receives repeated emphasis. Despite America\u2019s activeness on the world stage and the large number of immigrants within its\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=348","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":2},"title":"ALTA Conference 2011","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association is going on now, in Kansas City, MO. Here's a video from incoming president and translator of Spanish poetry, Gary Racz: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wXTO_FFV5X0 The ALTA conference is reliably one of the best annual conferences there is, and I'm sad that distance and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/wXTO_FFV5X0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=95","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":3},"title":"“Is That a Fish in Your Ear” interview","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One out of every five Americans is functionally bilingual \u2014 either because they are recent immigrants or they inherited it from their family or because they learned it at school or from residence abroad. That\u2019s quite a high percentage for an English-speaking country.\u00a0America isn\u2019t as monolingual as people say it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":257,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=257","url_meta":{"origin":1247,"position":4},"title":"More Press on Translation","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Salon.com has another article on translation, by Kevin Canfield, misleadingly titled \"How do you say 'balls of gold' in French?\" (wouldn't a more accurate headline be \"How do you say 'des couilles en or' in English\"?). Nevertheless, it's a decent take. 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