Translation is a vocation as consuming as any literary discipline, for it takes ingenuity, facility, and tenacity to tease out of English a likeness capturing the wit, nuance, and polish appreciable in the original. It demands originality, for its finest practitioners are so engaged they see their own and other languages afresh.
— from Malahat editor John Barton's
introduction, "A Like Vocation"
Winner:
Les poésies Francophones du Canada:
A Translation Contest |
Donald McGrath, "Elegy Written in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Park" (author: Robert Melançon)
- Chosen by contest judge Donald Winkler
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Poetry |
- Yves Bonnefoy (John Reibetanz), "Noli Me Tangere"
- Dragan Jovanovic Danilov (Goran Marić), "A poem about married couples from cold northern countries"
- Ulrikka Gernes (Patrick Friesen, P. K. Brask),
"Dogger Bank, all that junk, words…,"
"Skinny people are more naked, you said…,"
"The snake rattles among the dry leaves…,"
"You need a railway station, a cello, you need…"
- Vinko Grubišić (Katia Grubisic), "Letter"
- Durs Grünbein (John Reibetanz),
"Phonebooth Nostalgia," "Grounded," "Club of Rome," "Renewals"
- Dorothea Grünzeig (Derk Wynand), "poem of finding and losing"
- Yuri Izdryk (Erín Moure, Roman Ivashkiv), "synopsis"
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (A. F. Moritz), from Eternidades ("Night," "As you pass...")
- Amadou Elimane Kane (Amy Butcher), "The Baobab Speaks"
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Dmytro Kremin (Russell Thornton,
Svetlana Ischenko), "The Horse Constellation"
- Chus Pato (Erín Moure), "On the Turbulence of Poplars: Fuscum sub nigrum"
- Maitham Salman (Maitham Salman), "You"
- Simcha Simchovitch (Kenneth Sherman), "My Friend is Dying"
- Ana Paula Tavares (Paulo da Costa), "The massambala grows in the naked eye"
- Zulmira Ribeiro Taveres (Hugh Hazelton),
"Life: Objects of Desire," "Surfer," "Mourning," "The Parrot’s Speech"
- Haris Vlavianos (Evan Jones), from "Sonnets of Despair: apologia pro vita et arte mea" (12, 16, 24)
- Leyzer Volf (Kenneth Sherman), "Four Questions"
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Jan Wagner (Danielle Janess,
Julian Smith-Newman), "Nikosia," "Chameleon"
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Jan Zwicky, "Translation"
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Fiction |
- Hisham Bustani (Thoraya El-Rayyes), "Mirror, Mirror"
- David Clerson (Peter McCambridge), "Dog of a Father"
- Ha Seong-Nan (Janet Hong), "The Star-Shaped Stain"
- Bruno Hébert (Neil Smith), from It's Not Me, I Swear
- Chava Rosenfarb (Goldie Morgentaler), "In the Boxcar"
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Creative Nonfiction |
- Dacia Maraini (Genni Gunn), from The Ship for Kobe
- Katherine Luo (Yvonne So), "Along Came a Brother from Home Town"
- Joyce Zhang (Daniel Fried), "Too Much Happiness: Translating Munro into Chinese"
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Interview |
- Katia Grubisic, "Gradually the Multilingual Person: Katia Grubisic in Conversation with Hugh Hazelton"
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Reviews |
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Poetry
- Tiziano Broggiato, Against the Light, translated by Patricia Hanley and Marie Laura Mosco (Toronto: Guernica, 2013.) (Reviewed by Pasquale Verdicchio.)
- Chava Rosenfarb, Exile at Last: Selected Poems, translated and edited by Goldie Morgentaler (Oakville: Guernica, 2013.) (Reviewed by Anita Lahey.)
- Ludwig Zeller, The Rules of the Game, translated by A. F. Moritz (Toronto: Quattro, 2013.) (Reviewed by George McWhirter.)
- Robert Melançon, For as Far as the Eye Can See, translated by Judith Cowan (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2013) and Pierre Nepveu, The Major Verbs, translated by Donald Winkler (Montreal: Véhicule, 2012.) (Both reviewed by Marie Vautier.)
- Nuno Júdice, The Cartography of Being, translated by Paulo da Costa (Victoria: Livros Pé D'Orelha, 2012.) (Reviewed by David Swartz.)
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Fiction
- Christine Eddie, The Douglas Notebooks, translated by Sheila Fischman (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 2013.) (Reviewed by Iain Higgins.)
- Horacio Castellanos Moya, Dance with Snakes, translated by Lee Paula Springer (Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2009.) (Reviewed by Candice Fertile.)
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Nonfiction
- Tomoko Mitani, Will not Forget Both Laughter and Tears (translated by Yukari F. Meldrum (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2013.) (Reviewed by Sally Ito.)
- Sherry Simon, ed., In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman (Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 2013.) (Reviewed by Jo-Anne Elder.)
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Cover |
- Erin O'Leary, Abandoned Boxcar, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Digital photograph, 2013. Collection of the Artist.
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