Sollas Translation http://www.sollastranslation.com English - Gaelic - German, literary and non-literary texts Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/self-translation-brokering-originality-in-hybrid-culture/ http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/self-translation-brokering-originality-in-hybrid-culture/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:41:17 +0000 Corinna http://www.sollastranslation.com/?p=119 We have been invited to contribute an article to a volume on self-translation to be published by Continuum Books. The article will take a comparative view at authors’ attitudes to translation and self-translation in a minority language context, consulting Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic poets.

]]> http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/self-translation-brokering-originality-in-hybrid-culture/feed/lang/en/ Lainnir a’ Bhùrn http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/lainnir-a-bhrn/ http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/lainnir-a-bhrn/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:36:22 +0000 Corinna http://www.sollastranslation.com/?p=117 Sollas Translation has been invited to contribute an article to the proceedings of a conference on Gaelic literature in the twentieth century and beyond held at Edinbirgh University in April 2009. The book is entitled ‘Lainnir a’ Bhùirn / The Sparkling Water: Aistidhean air Nua-Litreachas na Gàidhlig / Essays on Modern Gaelic Literature’‏ and will be published by Edinburgh Academic Press in 2011. The article will look at self-translation in the light of Bakhtin’s theory od dialogism.

]]> http://www.sollastranslation.com/2011/06/23/lainnir-a-bhrn/feed/lang/en/ ITI Scottish Network http://www.sollastranslation.com/2010/04/10/iti-scottish-network/ http://www.sollastranslation.com/2010/04/10/iti-scottish-network/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:24:46 +0000 Corinna http://www.sollastranslation.com/?p=98 Sollas Translation has become a friend of the ITI Scottish network. Looking forward to networking and to the ‘Food for Thought’ workshop in Inverness in May

]]> http://www.sollastranslation.com/2010/04/10/iti-scottish-network/feed/lang/en/ FILMALBA http://www.sollastranslation.com/2009/11/18/filmalba/ http://www.sollastranslation.com/2009/11/18/filmalba/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:29 +0000 Corinna http://www.sollastranslation.com/?p=81 Two projects Sollas Translation was involved with will be featured at the FILMALBA festival in Germany at the end of this month.

FILMALBA is a festival for Gaelic movie and TV productions which takes place from 28th of November till 1st of December, 2009 in Bonn, Germany. Three movie evenings and one reading with live music that have all aspects of Gaelic culture as topic.

Look out for Sunday, 29th of November, 2009

6:30 pm: Presentation of the first bilingual literature project in German and Scottish Gaelic language “Der Schaedel von Damien Hirst” - “An Claigeann aig Damien Hirst” (The skull of Damien Hirst) The authors will read parts of their stories. Live Music: Às a’ Phìob - Bagpipes and Gaelic songs

and also for Tuesday, 1st of December, 2009

7 pm: Tropaig na Caorach - Wendekreis des Schafs - Tropic of the sheep, documentary of island life filmed in North Uist, BR & Telepool 2009, 73 min

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