Provenwrite Italian to English Translations

16/02/2021

https://slator.com/industry-news/poland-rules-on-lsp-using-google-translate-defines-professional-translator/?fbclid=IwAR2me-k8MiYpCn9RmL75tF5qIgMBVlNvBwM2afsA6TKKf93Y1Pt1XuYVSuo

Poland court ruling on the use of Google Translate by a translation agency and the definition of a ‘professional translator.’

01/05/2020

My translation of a new story by the prolific Italian short-story writer, Daniele De Serto.

https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2020/04/30/mexico/

by Daniele De Serto Translated from Italian by Wendell Ricketts The whole inside of the car smells like French fries. Sophie is extracting them one by one from the bag and then, after examining eac…

01/07/2019

"The life of a homos*xual man in a small town is made up of minor dramas, an ongoing soap opera of doubt: Should I say it or shouldn’t I? Like a surveyor without a compass, he lives in a permanent state of uncertainly regarding the borders between individual freedom and respect for others."

In Matteo Bianchi's "The Lost Language of Crane Operators," an anxious college student finds himself head over heels for a blue-collar man, translated from Italian by Wendell Ricketts: https://bit.ly/317v6un

13/06/2019

Translation ... at the heart of a centuries-old theological mistake?

The word homos*xual shows up in two different verses in the Bible, but has it always been? We got to sit down with Ed Oxford at his home in Long Beach, California and talk about this question. You have been part of a research team that has found that the word homos*xual wasn’t in the Bible t

06/06/2019

Dear Friends: If you're on Twitter, please go to https://twitter.com/provenwrite and RETWEET my Tweet about Generations of Love. (It's pinned to my profile.)

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I'm participating in the -- a social media initiative in which writers/translators can pitch manuscripts directly to agents and publishers. "Likes" should come only from them -- they mean an invitation to submit.

Thanks for the support today!

05/06/2019

“For years, I believed that a relationship between two people was based on mutual interests, on the books they’d both read, on trips they’d planned together, and it’s only now that I understand: Love is a much more concrete concept.”

From Matteo Bianchi, an anxious college student finds himself head over heels for a blue-collar man, translated from Italian by Wendell Ricketts: https://bit.ly/317v6un

03/06/2019

Including... 🥁🥁🥁 "The Lost Language of Crane Operators" by Matteo B. Bianchi from his novel, *Generations of Love*, translated by Wendell Ricketts!

It’s our tenth annual Q***r issue! We’re celebrating with new narratives of LGBTQ+ lives from around the world. From crane operators to theater students to tailors, the characters in these works navigate love triangles, fights for selfhood, unexpected kinship, rejection, and the sensuality of strawberry jam. Featuring work from Puerto Rico, China, Italy, Iceland, Montenegro, France, and Korea.

https://bit.ly/2WgHysS

30/05/2019

TL;DR - The answer is yes. And no.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/translated-fiction-has-been-growing-or-has-it.html

And does it even matter? A publisher of foreign lit weighs in on “the 3 percent problem.”

26/04/2019

24/04/2019

Writers are s*xy figures. Until recently, we tended to imagine them as drunk and glamorous, Hemingway at the bar in Cuba or Frank O’Hara partying with artists ...

12/04/2019

Though the links are in Italian, here's news about a book Giuseppe Iacobaci and I co-translated into Italian, David Almond's "A Song for Ella Grey." The translation, "La canzone di Orfeo" was nominated this year for two Italian literary prizes for YA literature, the Mare di Libri Prize and the Orbil Prize (Librerie Indipendenti per Ragazzi).

https://maredilibri.it/il-festival/progetti/premio-mare-di-libri/?fbclid=IwAR3kODWj2pK2eGFOYyEXAtZT_jIeJXZY4PwsZAzolO3KXpTdjKNOQNpGz-0

15/11/2018

Cher Upon A Midnight Clear: “How do adults know when something is for boys and when it’s for girls? For eight-year-old Luca, it’s a mystery.” Will be ruined ... or will save the day? ***r https://fourcatspress.com/catalog/lgbtq-interest/cher-upon-a-midnight-clear …

29/09/2018

If you're looking for guidance/a model contract for , the Center's is great (https://pen.org/a-model-contract-for-literary-translations …), but CEATL's is better, especially on issue of (https://www.ceatl.eu/translators-rights/guidelines-for-fair-translation-contracts).

Updated 9/15/17. The model contract is intended to be a starting point in negotiations between

29/09/2018

Northwest Literary Translators at the job fair & conference at N. Seattle College. Yes! We translated all those books!

13/06/2018

‪New translation! https://www.litro.co.uk/2018/05/midnight-sun-hip-hop-foundation/ “Midnight Sun Hip-Hop Foundation” by ‬
‪Daniele De Serto • English translation by Wendell Ricketts Cheers, !‬

Translated by Wendell Ricketts. "A concert north of the arctic circle goes not exactly to plan in today's , "Midnight Sun Hip Hop Foundation", by Daniele De Serto ...

19/12/2017

Stocking stuffer? You can still get it in time for Xmas, according to Amazon!

https://fourcatspress.com/catalog/lgbtq-interest/cher-upon-a-midnight-clear/

19/07/2017

Ogni tanto si scopre – somma gioia! – che esiste gente veramente seria in questa vita - Intervista a Isabella Zani. https://tradurrepereditoria.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/intervista-a-isabella-zani-il-dialogo-fra-traduttori/

Ciao Isabella, prima di tutto vuoi presentarti ai nostri corsisti? Come hai cominciato a tradurre, e quali autori da te tradotti ami di più? Buongiorno a tutti, e grazie per l’invito. Ho 46 anni, u…

10/07/2017

17/02/2017

http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=7451

A new short story by Daniele De Serto, published by Jersey Devil Press, February 2017.

Translation by Wendell Ricketts (ProvenWrite)

Daniele De Serto English translation by Wendell Ricketts In my dream, I was playing in the 1991 NBA finals, the first match in the five-game series. I must have taken Byron Scott’s position,…

02/02/2017

http://www.familyequality.org/get_informed/booknook/

Cher Upon A Midnight Clear, my translation of Matteo B Bianchi's Tu Cher dalle Stelle, is this month's Family Equality Council featured book!

Welcome to Family Equality Council’s Book Nook, home to all things LGBTQ family and literary! If you’ve been scouring the stacks for books that represent your family, or show diverse family constellations in a loving and respectful way, you know they aren't always easy to find. That’s why the Book N...

26/09/2016

La nostra risposta alla richiesta di creativi gratis del ministro

26/09/2016

http://www.internazionale.it/opinione/annamaria-testa/2016/09/26/fertility-day-lorenzin-comunicazione

"Cara ministra, quanto vale la buona comunicazione?" di Annamaria Testa

Gli esperti della comunicazione ... come i traduttori....

I recenti scivoloni sul Fertility day possono servire per ragionare di comunicazione, e in particolare di quella pubblica. Provo a farlo per punti, cercando di farmi comprendere anche da chi, per i motivi più vari, si trova a orientare (e non di rado a disorientare) processi di comunicazione importa...

25/07/2016

Transformations: The Hidden Art of Christo And Jeanne-Claude by Zornitza Kratchmarova; English translation by Wendell Ricketts.

20/06/2016

For years, cut-rate jobbers like have tried to spruce up their lousy offers by calling translators “linguists” (on the theory that you mind getting screwed less if you have a fancy title.) Now they’re seeking “translation assessors” rather than revisors.

18/06/2016

A tutti i miei clienti:

http://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/cronaca/2016/06/18/accademia-della-crusca-basta-con-gli-inutili-termini-inglesi-aziendali_ghX63s99JFdZ4QzKLi1ONI.html

a buon intenditore....

Via un gran numero di termini aziendali inglesi dal mondo accademico e universitario perché sono superflui, dal momento che possono essere sostituiti da parole italiane già nell'uso dei parlanti. Tra quelli considerati "inutili" figurano "analisi on desk" (può essere sostituito facilmente in italian...

27/03/2016

Don Camillo and Peppone ~ http://www.amazon.com/Don-Camillo-Peppone/dp/190006426X.

With translations by (rigorosamente in ordine alfabetico): Lucinda Byatt, Theresa Federici, Frances Frenaye, and Wendell Ricketts

Don Camillo and Peppone (The Don Camillo Series)

12/02/2016

We Don’t Get No Respect: Translation Copyright Is Only the Beginning ~ http://provenwrite.com/articles-interviews/we-dont-get-no-respect-translation-copyright-is-only-the-beginning/

30/11/2015

Cher Upon A Midnight Clear: "The story is full of gentle humor, tenderness, and the kind of sensitivity a lot of misunderstood children need in their lives. It quietly yet powerfully makes its points about gender identity and the hurtful effect of gender stereotyping on those who don’t fit the mold." (Rainbow Reviews) By Matteo B. Bianchi; translation by Wendell Ricketts ~ http://www.amazon.com/Cher-Midnight-Clear-Matteo-Bianchi/dp/0989980022

23/11/2015

http://tinyurl.com/p55hn3b ~ Holiday Comic Strip Nerd Pride Gift Guide. It's a poem! The Book of Singloids is a great stocking stuffer -- though you might need a slightly larger stocking!

A comic strip about nerdiness, friendship, s*x, love … and other maladies of the human condition.

18/11/2015

"The NYRB and Tim Parks on Primo Levi (and his invisible English translators)"
A commentary by translator Gregory Conti, Nov. 18, 2015
http://www.gregoryconti.com/home/dialoguing-with-the-pope

This morning the nice young woman who delivers our mail brought the latest issue (Nov. 8-18, 2015) of the The New York Review of Books. It’s always a treat when it arrives and I was especially delighted to see in the table of contents that this issue has a review by Tim Parks of the newly translated complete works of Primo Levi (Liveright, 3 vols. 2,910 pages).

Literary translators, especially those who translate from Italian to English, have been anxiously awaiting publication of this massive work. Not only because Levi is one of the important Italian writers of the 20th century, but even more so because these are new translations by the finest and best-known Italian-English translators working today: including Ann Goldstein, Anne Milano Appel, Antony Shugaar, Jonathan Galassi, and Michael Moore. All the big names, except perhaps Parks himself.

It was quite a surprise, therefore, to read the entire 3-page review and find not one mention of the translators or their translations. Now, anyone who has read Primo Levi in English knows that all, or virtually all, of his works have been translated before, and that they have been well received by Anglophone readers and critics, and admired by Levi’s fellow writers, such as Philip Roth. The news here is not Levi’s works or his status as a writer but the huge commitment of the publisher, Liveright and funding sources, like the National Endowments, to finance this project, not to mention the translators themselves who have translated nearly 3,000 pages of Levi’s prose and poetry.

The NYRB’s decision to review the new translations and its decision to assign the review to Parks – translator of Calvino and Leopardi among others - was a golden opportunity to compare the new translations to the old ones, to explain to readers why they should or shouldn’t bother to read Levi (again or for the first time) in these new translations, to bring a large and influential readership into a discussion about literature in translation. Alas, it is an opportunity that Parks decided to ignore. Why so? I have no idea, but I can’t let it pass without voicing my displeasure at the disservice he and the NYRB have done to Levi’s translators, old and new, to Liveright, and to literary translation in general. After reading the review, it seems fair to say that Parks has indeed read Primo Levi, but we have no way of knowing if he has read the new translations. Let’s hope that other reviewers and other literary reviews do better.