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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Naomi Lazard -- nothing lost in translation --
Refugee Mural in Silver Spring, MD -- Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.
Naomi Lazard is a wonderful, sensitive translator and poet.
When reading her translations of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, I feel just as if I am reading the original.
Same is true of Maureen Freely who translates Orhan Pamuk's books, and
Howard Goldblatt, who translates from the Chinese.
Would that everyone could find such wonderful translators.
Kyi May Kaung.
Excellent movie--Merchant Ivory--Before the Rains--probably best movie set in India 1937--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwvOL2gRbQ
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