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Ana María Correa

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Ana María Correa

Ana María Correa has an MA in literary translation from the University of East Anglia and is currently working on a bilingual edition of collected works by Colombian poet Teobaldo Noriega. She also blogs at Reading the Bogotá 39.

Articles by Ana María Correa

A New Venture

By Ana María Correa

And Other Stories is a fledgling independent publisher of fiction in translation with a new, community-based approach. Editorial selection decisions will emerge from a consensus of readers, writers, and…

The Translator’s Library: Gill Paul’s Translation in Practice

By Ana María Correa

The Translator’s Library is a series on the books that inform and inspire the art of translation.The intricate chain of events that occurs after a translator undertakes a translation for a publishing…

Outpouring for Mario Benedetti

By Ana María Correa

In posting on the recent death of Uruguayan poet and author Mario Benedetti at the age of 88, José Saramago wrote of the spontaneous outpouring of poetry that has spread around the world via the…

Talking Translation at the London Book Fair

By Ana María Correa

Having only one day free for attending the London Book Fair, the panel discussion involving Chad Post, Mark Thwaite, Bob Stein, Lance Fensterman, and Abby Blachly had been the one I’d been looking…

Dispatches: Merely Literary?

By Ana María Correa

At The Reading Experience this past December, Dan Green defended the way in which he reads to analyze literature for its aesthetic aspects and “to open up the text in order to make its palpable…

Dispatches: Neither Here nor There

By Ana María Correa

One of the issues I’ve always had in being bicultural—especially now that I call Colombia my home (although I’m in England at the moment)—is the dilemma of loving a country…and…

Dispatches: Translator/Author Complexity

By Ana María Correa

In working through my own ideas of how I approach texts to be translated, a persistent issue that may never be resolved is that of the author’s role. As much as I tell myself that I should have…

Dispatches: Creativity through Constraint

By Ana María Correa

It is easy to think of translation in terms of confinement, especially when it comes to the translation of poetry. But there are have been literal renderings (Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin), out-and-out…