November 7, 2014

Minae Mizumura: One Passage, Seven Translations

At SCBWI Japan Translation Day on October 18, participants (including members of SWET) submitted translations for critique by Juliet Winters Carpenter during a 90-minute workshop. The workshop focused on A True Novel by Minae Mizumura.

Carpenter later selected six translators' renderings of a passage in chapter 5, "Lightbulbs," and edited them for publication online, together with her own translation (released to much acclaim by Other Press).

To read the seven renderings, click here. To read a SWET interview with Carpenter about A True Novel, click here.