{"id":1528,"date":"2018-09-16T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:38:56","slug":"kellogg-college-creative-writing-seminar-series-peter-bush-the-translator-as-writer-25-october-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Peter Bush, \u201cThe Translator as Writer\u201d, 25 October 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Bush is a full-time literary translator and has translated over 70 works mainly from Catalan and Spanish. Translations include Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook (NYRB), Najat El Hachmi’s The Last Patriarch (Serpent’s Tail), Merce Rodoreda’s In Diamond Square (Virago) and Juan Goytisolo’s Forbidden Territory (Verso). In August Bitter Lemon published his translation of Teresa Solana’s The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories and forthcoming from Short Books is All Messi: Exercises in Style by Jordi Punti. Peter is a former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, where he was also Professor of Literary Translation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
\n62 Banbury Road
\n5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm<\/p>\n

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary.<\/p>\n

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Translator as Writer\u201d Peter Bush is a full-time literary translator and has translated over 70 works mainly from Catalan and Spanish. Translations include Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook (NYRB), Najat El Hachmi’s The Last Patriarch (Serpent’s Tail), Merce Rodoreda’s In Diamond Square (Virago) and Juan Goytisolo’s Forbidden Territory (Verso). In August Bitter Lemon published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-oE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=463","url_meta":{"origin":1528,"position":0},"title":"Harvill Secker Young Translators\u2019 Prize","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"May 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The language of focus in 2013 is Portuguese, the text to be translated is\u00a0\u2018O sucesso\u2019 by Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa. 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