How Do We Create a Philosophy of Translation?

In Conversation

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  Katrina Dodson

  Katrina Dodson

  Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, winner of the PEN Translation Prize and other awards. She is currently adapting her Lispector translation journal into a book and translating the 1928 Brazilian modernist classic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character by Mário de Andrade (New Directions). Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches translation at Columbia University.

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  Heather Cleary

  Heather Cleary

  Heather Cleary has translated books of fiction by Betina González, María Ospina, Roque Larraquy, and Sergio Chejfec, among others, as well as non-fiction and poetry. She holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She served on the jury of the 2020 NBA for Translated Literature.