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Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman

 As communication becomes increasingly international via the media, translation - especially language translation - is vital to understanding politics, social life, religion, culture and art. Translator, author and critic Edith Grossman will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Why Translation Matters,” and based on her book of the same name, is part of the fall 2011 Humanities Forum. It is free and open to the public.

 

Grossman is the acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and many other distinguished Spanish-language writers. Her translation of Don Quixote is widely considered a masterpiece. The recipient of numerous prizes for her work, she was awarded the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation by PEN in 2006, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize in 2010.

 

The Humanities Forum at Hamilton College will address the topic of “Translation and Cultural Exchange.” This two-year forum offers multiple perspectives that will challenge audiences to think about how meaningful words, sentences, and paragraphs can be translated from one language to another.


 

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