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Traduttore Traditore? Recognizing and Promoting the Critical Role of Translation in a Global Culture
Sat 21 Feb - Thu 26 Feb, 2009
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Translator; Past Chair of the International Federation of Translators Literary Translation Committee; Visiting Professor, University of Malaga Biography:
Peter Bush (co-chair) works in Barcelona as a freelance literary translator. He was awarded the Valle-Inclán Literary Translation Prize for his translation of Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga. Recent translations from Spanish include Queen Cocaine by Nuria Amat and The Havana Fever by Leonardo Padura and from Catalan The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzó and A Not So Perfect Crime by Teresa Solana. Current projects include new translations of the Renaissance novel, La Celestina, Goytisolo’s Juan the Landless and Valle-Inclán’s Tirano Banderas. He was Professor of Literary Translation at Middlesex University and at the University of East Anglia where he directed the British Centre for Literary Translation. He teaches a course on literary translation and the publishing industry as visiting professor at the University of Málaga.
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