Jen Calleja on translation

Jen Calleja’s new non-fiction book is Fair: The Life-Art of Translation.

Fair is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair/art fair/fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real-world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of the literary translator in publishing, about fairness and hard work, the ways we define success, and what it means – and whether it is possible – to make a living as an artist. Blurring the lines between memoir, autofiction, satire and polemic, Fair is a singularly inventive and illuminating book by one of the UK’s most original and admired writers and translators.

Jen will be in conversation with Dr Olivia Helewell, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Refreshments included

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• This Sunday, 1st June, 04:45 pm, Stonehenge and the Battle of the Beanfield, an illustrated talk with Alan Lodge “Tash” in Nottingham
• Next Wednesday, 4th June, 07:00 pm, Life Lines, a Writer Highway event with Jan Norton, Julie Burke and support in Nottingham
• Next Thursday, 5th June, 07:00 pm, Five years, 30,000 miles and 1,000 Trees… an illustrated talk by Paul Wood in Nottingham

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