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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

Review of Contemporary Texts in Translation and E-Learning

        Nr. 31/April 13, 2008

Director: LIDIA VIANU

© CTITC

    MTTLC

ISSN 1842 – 9149

Issue Editor: LIDIA VIANU and ANDREEA DIACONU

Board of  Advisors:

RUTH FAINLIGHT

GEORGE SZIRTES

ADAM SORKIN

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

Stella Davis

Stella Davis was born and brought up in southern England, and educated at Christ’s Hospital and Southampton University. She has been writing poetry since the 1980s, and her work appears regularly in magazines including Acumen, The Interpreter’s House, The London Magazine, The Rialto, Staple, and South Poetry Magazine, at whose six-monthly readings she is a frequent contributor. Her poems have also been heard on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Solent. Her first collection with Peterloo Poets is due in 2006.

Stella conducts book groups, poetry workshops, and writing groups for adults and children. She writes poems on commission, tackling everything from private birthday and Valentine greetings to a commemoration of Beaulieu Abbey’s 800^th anniversary in 2004.

Winner of the Open University Open Poetry Competition 2001, she spent the Year of the Artist (2000-2001) as Poet in Residence at the Port of Southampton. Her book of poems arising from the residency, Watershot (Wanda Publications 2001), found both local popularity and wider critical acclaim. In 2003 she was funded by the Arts Council as Poet in Residence at Winchester Cathedral, where an exhibition of her poems was shown in spring 2004. Her book of residency poems St Swithun’s Day was published by the Friends of Winchester Cathedral in July 2004. In 2005 she won the Torbay Poetry Festival Open Poetry Competition.

Stella Davis lives in Southampton. She is married to an academic lawyer and has a daughter and a son. She works as a free-lance editor, writer, and jobbing poet.

Link: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/stelladavispage.html

Translations of After Burying the Monster by: Brandusa Raileanu, Cristina Nistor, Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu, Liviu Martinescu, Simona Elisabeta Catana, Fabiola Popa, Ioana-Alina Stan, Corina Nicoleta Iscru, Alina Petrescu, Ana Maria Purec, Andreea Hadambu, Cristina Florea, Dana Constantinescu, Daniela Bojica, Eliza Ghitulescu, Ioana Tudor, Iulia Anchidin, Iuliana Florea, Maria Ionela Adam, Patricia Necuale, Paula Sesonov, Raluca-Ioana Manolescu, Raul Cojocaru, Rodica (Tita) Ionas, Silvia Nicolae, Simona Florentina Pavaloiu, Steliana Palade, Teofana Trapcea, Violeta Mitu