Workshop with Sam Taylor

November 13, 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Sam Taylor is a British novelist and literary translator who now lives in the United States. He has translated novels by Maylis de Kerangal, Leila Slimani and Clémentine Beauvais (among others), as well as Riad Sattouf’s graphic novel The Arab of the Future.

On 13 November 2020, Sam Taylor will talk about his translation of Antoine Leiris’ You Will Not Have My Hate (2016) and the upcoming translation of Leiris’ La vie, après. He will describe the links between translation and literary creation, and talk about career possibilities in translation and publishing.

Please contact Kaliane Ung (khu3@pitt.edu) for registration and reading materials.

This event is co-sponsored by the Year of Creating Europe initiative at the European Studies Center. 

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