Literary Translator in Residence 2023-2024 – Elvira Grassi

Jacopo Turini NEWS, TRANSLATION

Literature Ireland / Nano Nagle Place / School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (UCC)     Literary Translator in Residence 2023-2024   Elvira Grassi was born in Ancona, Italy. She works in Rome as a literary translator and editor. She holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and a specialisation in the Didactics of Italian as a Foreign Language …

New Literary Translator in Residence – Anna-Nina Kroll

Jacopo Turini NEWS, TRANSLATION

Anna-Nina Kroll has been appointed as the Literary Translator in Residence 2022-2023 at University College Cork as part of an agreement between the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SLLC) and Literature Ireland, the national agency in Ireland for the promotion of Irish literature abroad. Anna-Nina Kroll is a fiction and non-fiction translator from English into German. She will be based in the SLLC during the second semester of 2022-2023 and will offer literary translation workshops, …

Clara Ministral – UCC Literary Translator in Residence 2021-2022

Jacopo Turini NEWS, TRANSLATION

Clara Ministral has been appointed as the inaugural Literary Translator in Residence at University College Cork as part of an agreement between the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SLLC) and Literature Ireland, the national agency in Ireland for the promotion of Irish literature abroad. Clara Ministral is a fiction and non-fiction translator from English into Spanish. She will be …

New University College Cork and Literature Ireland Translator in Residence Bursary

Jacopo Turini NEWS, TRANSLATION

We are delighted to announce the beginning of a new partnership between Literature Ireland and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. This partnership will support an annual residential bursary for a literary translator to travel to Ireland and live and work on the beautiful UCC Campus in Cork City. The first residency will take place …

CfP. Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century

Laura Linares NEWS, TRANSLATION

A reminder that there is still time to send your proposals for our conference Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century, which will take place in UCC in June 2019. The CfP is available below:   Performing Translation: Translatorship in the 21st Century Project DaRT – Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC) University College Cork, Ireland 21-22nd June …

Book Publication. Stone Girl, by Mary Noonan

Laura Linares NEWS, TRANSLATION

Congratulations to our wonderful colleague Mary Noonan from the French Department at UCC on the publication of her latest poetry book, Stone Girl.   The poems in Stone Girl, Mary Noonan’s second collection, are beguiled by the fascination of stone, especially stone statues of women – the statue of the Virgin carried through the streets of Seville to the bullring …