Translation Cafe: Pura López Colomé in translation. Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

Translation Cafe : Pura López Colomé in translation. Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy

Pura López Colomé is one of Mexico’s leading contemporary poets. She is also an essayist and translator. She has published 13 poetry collections to date, many of which have received national and international prizes.

Lorna Shaughnessy is a Lecturer in Spanish in the University of Galway. She has published four translations of collections by Mexican poets Pura López Colomé and María Baranda, and Galician author Manuel Rivas, as well as four collections of her own poetry.

Lorna will bring some translation- in-progress of recent poetry by Pura López Colomé to the Translation Café, where we can discuss some of the challenges it presents, and possible strategies for addressing these. The challenges include translating wordplay and coping with differences between Spanish and English syntax.

Translation Café is a monthly event run by the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice. It functions as a reading group for colleagues interested in the many facets of the art of translation. The format of the group is designed to allow participants share their interests/research/linguistic investigations with other colleagues in an informal manner.