Carlos Fuentes Sebald Lecture on the Art of Literary Translation

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Monday 20 September 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre
Sebald Lecture on the Art of Literary Translation

One of Latin America?s greatest writers, Carlos Fuentes, delivers this year?s Sebald Lecture on the art of literary translation. His lecture follows the presentation of the 2003 Translation Prizes, which for Spanish-into-English goes to Anne McLean for her translation of Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas.
Carlos Fuentes has always been an outspoken critic of American foreign policy. He publicly supported Castro?s Cuban revolution and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and was barred from the US for much of the 1960?s. Alongside Marquez and Vargas Llosa, he was one of the leading figures of Latin America?s literary boom of the 1960s and 70s. His novel The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) was one of the first Hispanic novels to use stream of consciousness and his book The Old Gringo (1985) exploring the US-Mexican border as a real and symbolic frontier, became a film starring Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck. His collection of essays, This I Believe, is published this autumn.
The Sebald Lecture is produced in association with the British Centre for Literary Translation and supported by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). The annual event celebrates the art of translation with prizes being given to outstanding translators.
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