The Irish Centre for Galician Studies, in conjunction with the research cluster 'Translation and Creative Practice' (CASiLaC, UCC), warmly invites you to a seminar with Galician writer and translator Xavier Queipo.
Xavier Queipo, the author of several novels, short story and poetry collections, is also a renowned and award-winning translator, having brought into Galician the work of writers such as Amin Maalouf and Hervé Guivert (from French) and Joseph Conrad and James Joyce (from English). His own works have been translated into different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. In this seminar, Queipo will reflect on the role of translation in minoritised contexts, both in relation to his work as a translator and with regards to his own experience of being translated into other languages.
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PROGRAMME
10:45-11:00 Martín Veiga (University College Cork)
Welcome Address
11:00-11:30 Clara Ministral (Literature Ireland/SLLC Literary Translator in Residence)
De qué hablo cuando hablo de traducir libros
11:30-12:00 Daniel Salgado (Translator, poet and journalist)
Contra el tiempo: traducción y estado de la poesía
12:00-12:30 Discussion
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Xesús Fraga was born in London, but later moved to Coruña and Betanzos. He is one of only four Galician-language writers to have won the Spanish National Book Award for Fiction, which he received for his novel Virtues (and Mysteries) (2020). A graduate in journalism from Salamanca University, he has worked for the newspaper La Voz de Galicia in the sections ‘Galicia’ and ‘Culture’. He writes both adult and young adult fiction. Virtues (and Mysteries) also received the Blanco Amor and the Galician Critics’ Awards. Other titles include Tute for Four (2000), A-Z (2003) and Solimán (2004). His two YA titles, The White Elephant (2013) and Reo (2015), received the Sarmiento and the Queen Lupa Awards respectively and deal with the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Fraga has translated important works into Galician, including The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
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