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🗓 Thursday 12 November (Week 5) 🕖 4:30 - 6:00 PM 📍 The Queen's College Translation Exchanges is a series of casual workshops for everyone interested in translation, hosted by the Queen's College Translation Exchange. All are welcome, regardless of experience, language combination, or degree stage – the important thing is that you're curious about translation and want to think about it more. We meet 2-3 times per term in an informal setting in small groups (snacks included!). We're very excited to announce our first session of term will be a special session with Polly Barton! Polly Barton is an acclaimed writer and translator of Japanese literature. Her translations include the bestselling Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai. She won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Fifty Sounds. In 2022-23, Polly was Translator-in-Residence at the Queen's College Translation Exchange. Attendees are encouraged to bring along a short translation problem - whether it’s from your classwork or a project you’re developing - to workshop with Polly and the rest of the group. The workshop is multilingual - all that matters is you can explain your problem to an Anglophone audience. All attendees will be emailed on Tuesday 10 November to confirm if they have a place. If you’d like to get involved with Translation Exchanges, email georgina.fooks@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

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