This workshop, led by the award-winning authors and translators Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton, will explore some of the challenges of translating between Japanese and English. Considering various approaches, we will collaboratively translate a text from Japanese into English, with no prior knowledge of Japanese required. This workshop is the final event of Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton's joint translation residency at the Queen’s College, Oxford, and will be a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with both writer and translator while exploring what it means to translate contemporary Japanese literature today.
The joint residency with Aoko Matsuda and Polly Barton forms part of Polly Barton’s Visiting Fellowship at TORCH, as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme. This joint residency is generously supported by the Daiwa Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Stephen Spender Trust, the Queen's College, Oxford, and TORCH.
For a full list of the events as part of this joint residency please see below:
