Reading the World: EWN's Interviews with Four Literary Translators

The big litblog "Emerging Writers Network" better known as EWN, has just posted its "Writing the World" interview with a panel of four literary trabnslators: Howard Curtis, Katherine Silver, Paul Olchvary and Richard Jeffrey Newman.

A funny translation from English to Lolcat

If you don't understand lolcat, Anil Dash's "I can has grammar" might help.

Once you have that as a foundation, Francis Heaney's translation to this version of "This is just to say" is very funny!

oh hai
you had some plums
but I eated them
I is sorry

they had a flavor

Thanks Francis, that made my day! And I love The Holy Tango of Literature by the way.

Translator Interviews in The Quarterly Conversation

C.M. Mayo, Chris Andrews, and Natasha Wimmer are each interviewed in the new issue of The Quarterly Conversation.