The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts

[saare_snowqueen]

Five Poems
by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher
These were co-finalsts in the competition organised by Antioch University Los Angeles. The winner and other finalist can be found at Read more... )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Not having any Russian I don't know how true to the original these are, but they read extremely well.

Translations can so often be a pale shadow but these work.

[saare_snowqueen]

Clearly the point of this award is to encourage a standard of excellence in translation, something I heartily approve of. I'm happy you enjoyed them.

When you FINALLY come up here, I'll take you down the Courland Spit (from In Memory of East Prussia) The Lithuanian section is one of my favourite Baltic places - outside Saaremaa, of course.

[cmcmck]

Himself will be in Latvia at some point early this year (Latvian EU presidency stuff) so he's going to suss things out a bit for a trip!

[saare_snowqueen]

I hope you can get something organised. It would be lovely to meet you face to face, and to have an excuse to go to Riga.

[cmcmck]

A friend and partner visited for a conference last year and really enjoyed it.

[saare_snowqueen]

Riga is a very beautiful and charming city; in fact all three of the Baltic capitals are delightful in their own unique ways. But a person has to start somewhere.........