Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri discusses her translation of Ties, a new novel by bestselling Italian novelist and screenwriter Domenico Starnone, winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary award, The Strega. “Ties” tells the story of Vanda and Aldo’s strained marriage, when Aldo decides to leave Vanda and their children for a younger woman.
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Jhumpa writes about the path to translating Ties in this Literary Hub article.
Jhumpa writes about teaching herself Italian in this New Yorker article.
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Thanks for posting this, I have read some of Jhumpa Lahiri's own novels and had no idea she was a translator too! Going to read this on Kindle
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/teach-yourself-italian
http://lithub.com/jhumpa-lahiri-on-the-compulsion-to-translate-domenico-starnone/
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I would recommend that anyone interested in translation, writing, or learning a language read Lahiri's memoir In Other Words. She wrote it in Italian and Ann Goldstien translated it (there's a whole chapter explaining why she can't translate her own work). It's a beautiful book, with the original Italian on the left-hand side and the English on the right. A linguist's dream memoir!
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