tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2023-09-14T11:00:31+08:00 Peatix George Town Literary Festival tag:peatix.com,2018:event-446979 2018-11-22T16:00:00MYT 2018-11-22T16:00:00MYT

[For student rate of RM85, please enter Promo Code: STUDENT]Facilitator: Muhammad Haji SallehTranslating poetry presents its own special problems. Its compact form must be understood and appreciated. The translator must be conscious of the music of the words. And poetry’s use of images and metaphors also poses considerable interpretative problems. Join the poet, translator and National Literary Laureate, Muhammad Haji Salleh, in a discussion and workshop on the particular demands of translating Malay poetry. The workshop introduces the special characteristics of classical poetic forms such as pantun and syair, and invites participants to share creative strategies like the rhyming scheme, assonance, alliteration and melody. Examples from past renditions that focus on these challenges will be shared in advance and their strategies in solving translation problems will be discussed. Registered participants must be fluent in both Bahasa Malaysia and English and, ideally, have some previous experience in translating literary texts. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.Following registration, participants will be sent a pantun and a verse of a modern poem to translate. Translated texts are to be submitted to GTLF two weeks prior to the workshop. Important Dates1 October – Registration opens30 October – Registration closes 9 November – Submission of translations22 November – Workshop-------Muhammad Haji Salleh is a poet, critic, translator and editor, who has published over 50 books in both Malay and English. He is the author of 14 books of poems, including Jatuh ke Laut Menjadi Pulau (2014) and Purple Desire of the Islands (2016). He published a definitive translation of The Epic of Hang Tuah (2010) and is working on a translation of Sulalat al-Salatin, a book of proverbs and his autobiography. He has won many national prizes for his poetry and criticism/theory: the National Laureate of Malaysia (1991), the ASEAN Literary Award (1977), SEA Write Award (1997) and MASTERA (Southeast Asia Literary Council) Award (2001). He is a professor emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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