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Lawrence Venuti

Contributor

Lawrence Venuti

Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator's Invisibility (2nd ed., 2008), The Scandals of Translation (1998), and Translation Changes Everything (2013)....

He is also the editor of The Translation Studies Reader (3rd ed., 2012) and Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies (2017). His translations include the anthology Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion (2003), Massimo Carlotto's crime novel Death's Dark Abyss (2006), J. Rodolfo Wilcock's The Temple of Iconoclasts (2014), and I.U. Tarchetti's Fantastic Tales (2019). His version of Ernest Farrés's Edward Hopper: Poems (2009) won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize.

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Articles by Lawrence Venuti

Translations on the Market

By Lawrence Venuti

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, where thousands of publishers from around the world annually squeeze inside huge exhibition halls to buy and sell foreign rights, a typical booth contains several tiny tables…

Waiting Room

By Francesc Parcerisas

The love you didn't expect is always more pure.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Sun in an Empty Room, 1963

By Ernest Farrés

In this bedroom devoid of furniture / and unpolluted the action is set.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Summer Evening, 1947

By Ernest Farrés

Being a couple is twice the fun.

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Summer in the City, 1949

By Ernest Farrés

The man is looking for trouble,

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Self-Portrait, 1925-1930

By Ernest Farrés

On the spot where I write all this hodgepodge of verses / stands Edward Hopper,

Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti

Mute Map

By Milo De Angelis

Let's cut the anthology, the songs of repatriation. / Let's report the facts and words exactly.

Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti

Bakarak

By Luigi Malerba

Eureka! I said to myself. Now I understand. I had understood.

Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti

My Mother’s Garage Sale

By Daniel Laverdure

You might say my mother loves simple things. But the real point is that she's certain she isn't wrong.

Translated from French by Lawrence Venuti

The Angel’s Feather

By Angela Nanetti

Time passed, and there, where the angel's feather lay, flowers began to bloom.

Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti

Brothers

By Paola Capriolo

What? Are you still scheming against the sun? As sure as you live, as sure as I am, in the world to come the sun will possess sevenfold the light that it now possesses.

Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti

How to Read a Translation

By Lawrence Venuti

Among the many pronouncements that have shaped our understanding of literary translation, perhaps none is more often echoed than John Dryden’s preface to his version of the Aeneid. “I have…

From “Frau Teleprocu”

By J. Rodolfo Wilcock & Francesco Fantasia

She was terrified by His Holiness's utter silence.

Translated from Italian by Lawrence Venuti