PUBLIC PROGRAM
ROMANIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Featuring Sean Cotter
Hosted by Jennifer Croft
Saturday, October 21, 2023 | 7-8 pm
Flagship | 112 N Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103
TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMMING IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Writer and translator Jennifer Croft will host renowned Romanian translator Sean Cotter to discuss his adventures in Romanian fiction, including most recently with Mircea Cărtărescu, an author frequently thought to be in the running for the Nobel Prize. Cotter's translation of Cărtărescu's novel SOLENOID was named one of the best books of 2022 by by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and The Financial Times.
An award-winning translator and scholar of translation, Sean Cotter has translated many works of Romanian literature, including Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding: the Left Wing (Archipelago Books, 2013) and Magda Cârneci’s FEM (Deep Vellum Books, 2021). His selection of Nichta Stănescu’s poetry, Wheel with a Single Spoke (Archipelago Books, 2012), won the Best Translated Book Award and was supported by a previous National Endowment for the Arts grant. He first lived in Romania as a Peace Corps volunteer. His monograph, Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania (University of Rochester Press, 2014), won the Society for Romanian Studies Biennial Book Prize. He is professor of literature and translation studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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