{"id":71,"date":"2006-08-13T17:05:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T21:53:10","slug":"the-bat-segundo-show-53-michael-orthofer-and-betsy-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-53-michael-orthofer-and-betsy-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Orthofer and Betsy Wing (BSS #53)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guests:<\/b> Michael Orthofer<\/a> and Betsy Wing<\/a> (translator, LBC nominee, Summer 2006)<\/p>\n

Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> In absentia, fleeing the silly hipsters.<\/p>\n

Subjects Discussed:<\/b> How to raise awareness of translated fiction, an idea involving Chad Post, on being a designated translator, language adopted by literary critics, a very friendly dog in the Wing household, breaking down a novel, dictionaries, on hooking up with Paule Constant, working class vernacular, dialects, maintaining the tone between funny and heartwrenchingly sad, working against first impressions in translation, the myth of auctorial spontaneity, a forgotten movement in the late 1970s and the early 1980s to bring attention to translators, the advantages of freelance translating, and putting the translator’s name on the book spine.<\/p>\n[INTERVIEW NOTES:<\/B> The interviews were all conducted by telephone.]\n

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Guests: Michael Orthofer and Betsy Wing (translator, LBC nominee, Summer 2006) Condition of Mr. Segundo: In absentia, fleeing the silly hipsters. Subjects Discussed: How to raise awareness of translated fiction, an idea involving Chad Post, on being a designated translator, language adopted by literary critics, a very friendly dog in the Wing household, breaking down […]<\/p>\n