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 TRANSLATION CAFÉ 

CTITC
CENTER FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT

MTTLC
MA Programme for the TRANSLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY TEXT

TRANSLATION

CAFÉ

Nr. 34, April 23, 2008

Director: LIDIA VIANU

© CTITC

    MTTLC

ISSN 1842 – 9149

Issue Editor: LIDIA VIANU and ANDREEA DIACONU

Board of Advisors:

FIONA SAMPSON

RUTH FAINLIGHT

GEORGE SZIRTES

ADAM SORKIN

IOANA IERONIM

JOHN MOLE

These translations  are an online seminar of literary translation, part

of Lidia Vianu’s course [Guide to Contemporary Literature and Its Translation],

and a session of E-Learning in the MA Programme for the Translation of the

Contemporary Literary Text, directed by Lidia Vianu.

The texts have also been discussed in translation group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationcafe/ 

poetry pRO

A collaboration between Lidia Vianu, Professor of contemporary British literature at the English Department of the University of Bucharest, and poetry p f, a growing showcase of poets writing in English, some fully accomplished with several published collections, others at the start of their poetic careers.

Lidia Vianu:  www.e-scoala.ro/lidiavianu/index.html

poetry p f:    www.poetrypf.co.uk/

CONTENTS

Gabriel Griffin

Gabriel Griffin is the creator and organiser of the annual Poetry on the Lake spring international poetry competition and autumn festival, now in its 7th year; also Readings for UNESCO World Poetry Day and other poetry events, events and seminars on community communication for the Venice Biennale, art exhibitions and cultural events in Milan.

Her work has been prized in competitions and published in a number of magazines and anthologies 1999-2006 including, Scintilla, Envoi, Poetry Life, My Mother Threw Knives, How Do I Love Thee, Poetry as a Foreign Language, Writers Forum, Beehive Press, Coventry Millennium Anthology, Still,  HQ Poetry Magazine, Ripley, Split the Lark, Forest Arts, Wiltshire County Libraries, Barnet Borough Arts, Writers’ Bureau, HQ Poetry Magazine, Acorn Book of Contemporary Haiku, Norwich Writers, and Peterloo.

Comments on her poems:

“Musical – skillfully handled”.

Sherazade and her Sultan commented by Doris Corti

“A deeply layered, visionary piece to read and enjoy repeatedly… takes the great leap of the imagination which is the essence of poetry.”

Learning the language of the lake commented by Alison Chisholm

“It is very difficult to write a poem about a political subject, a subject in the news more or less every day, which feels fresh and new, which does not feel somehow, you know, worthy but I think this poet has managed it.”

John Whitworth

Translations of Outsiders by: Gabriela Moldovan, Oana Teodora Ionescu, Stefania-Ileana Tarcomnicu, Hilda Vekony, Corina-Elena Chelmus, Roxana Mindrican, Veronica Stoianovici, Ramona Zamfirescu, George Cojocaru, Angela Craescu, Dana Nicorici, Oana Teodoroiu, Arina Lungu, Brandusa Raileanu, Cristina Nistor, Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu, Liviu Martinescu, Ruxandra Buluc, Simona Elisabeta Catana