Conversations in Translation: Two Translators Discuss Their Work

This event will place in conversation two high profile translators of Asian novels. Stephen Epstein, translator of The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha, and Stephen Snyder, translator of The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa will discuss their work as professional translators of novels in Asian languages. Epstein, Director of the Asian Languages and Cultures Programme at Victoria University in Wellington has translated multiple novels from Korean and Indonesian to English. Snyder, Dean of the Middlebury Language Schools, is widely recognized as a top translator of novels from Japanese to English.

Sponsored by International and Global Studies, East Asian Studies, American Studies, Japanese Studies, the Academic Enrichment Fund, and the Axinn Center for the Humanities.