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Archive for May, 2008

Translating Háy, ‘Petőfi híd’, 2007

János Háy’s short prose piece ‘Petőfi híd’ (Petőfi bridge) is one of seven short stories named after Budapest bridges, published together in Házasságon innen és túl (Budapest, Palatinus, 2007). Current BA student Malcolm Lesley translated ‘Petőfi híd’ as part of a finalists’ language project on translation and translation criticism. Reading the original with Malcolm’s translation, [...]

Posted on May 20th, 2008 under Literature, Translation. Comments: 5

Translation workshops

The programme of the Friday Circle in the third term will focus on the theme of translation, including discussions not only on the (im)possibility of translation, but also on the practice of translating Hungarian into English, and English into Hungarian, although practice and discussion will not be limited to these two languages. We regard all [...]

Posted on May 12th, 2008 under Hungarian studies, Translation. Comments: None