Tag: Emily Wilson

On First Looking into Wilson’s Homer: Womxn’s War for Words

  Georgia Poplett

On reading Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, Georgia Poplett started to consider the misogynistic history behind language and the way translated words have been used to harm and heal womxn.

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Interview with award-winning translator and writer, Natasha Lehrer: ‘Translation is not a word-for-word transposition. It’s another iteration of the book.’

  Elodie Rose Barnes

Natasha Lehrer, award-winning translator and writer, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about translation theory, Oulipo writers, the joy of translating poetry and the brilliance of French author Nathalie Léger’s prose.

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