Tim Parks

The art of literary translation is at the heart of World Literature Weekend. This will be marked in the 2011 festival through a programme of workshops led by a team of Britain’s most distinguished literary translators. This half-day workshop led by Tim Parks focuses on the Italian language and will ... (more)be structured around close work on texts sent in advance to participants. Discussion will centre on the differences in approach evident in variant translations of the same texts. Participants should have a good working knowledge of the language and will be invited to prepare their own translations of the texts under discussion. Novelist, essayist, translator and teacher, Tim Parks has lived and worked in Italy since 1981. His many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Tabucchi, Calvino, Calasso and most recently Machiavelli (The Prince). He has written widely (in both English and Italian) on the subject of translation and his book Translating Style (St Jerome Press) is an unusual attempt to fuse literary criticism with translation analysis. For more than a decade he has run a post-graduate degree on translation at IULM University, Milan. Workshop fee £65 (£40 concessions). To book two workshops at the discounted prices of £110 (£70 concessions) please call Claire Williams on 020 7269 9030.

Tickets £6.