Audio-interview with translator Elizabeth Wessel about Apr. 6 event, "Swedish Poetry Today"

[Susan Johnson]

On April 6, the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College will
host “Swedish Poetry Today,” a program of readings and discussion with
Anna Hallberg, Jörgen Gassilewski, and Johannes Görannson.

Center director Peter Connor recently sat down with moderator
Elizabeth Clark Wessel to preview the upcoming event and to discuss
her work as English-language translator of Hallberg’s poetry.

This is the first of a series of audio-interviews on translation to be
conducted at the Center.

Listen to it on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLrX6PXEiGw
(24:37 minutes)

Event date and time: Friday, April 6, 2012, 6 p.m.
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Third Floor, Barnard Hall
Directions: www.barnard.edu/visit/directions

This event is presented thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Free and open to the public. No registration or reservations are
necessary. More information is available at www.barnard.edu/translation/swedishpoetry.