Articles by Elizabeth Harris

From the Translator: Elizabeth Harris on Translating Marco di Marco

June 29, 2011

In this installment of "From the translator,"  Elizabeth Harris weighs in on dialogue, scene, exposition, and the fascinating process behind rendering Marco Di Marco's Moving Like Geckos for Words without Borders. You can read the piece in our June 2011 issue over here. I'm very pleased…...read more »

Articles by Elizabeth Harris

From the Translator: Elizabeth Harris on Translating Marco Candida

December 17, 2010

I’d like to thank the editors at Words Without Borders once again for asking me to discuss my translation, this time of Marco Candida’s fiction. That WWB is interested in the translator’s perspective is wonderful and truly significant. Any comment I make on translating Marco’s…...read more »

Articles by Elizabeth Harris

From the Translator: Elizabeth Harris on Translating Chess in “The Revenge of Capablanca”

July 12, 2010

In a special piece for Dispatches, Elizabeth Harris, translator of Fabio Stassi's piece The Revenge of Capablanca in this month's issue, talks about the ins and outs of translating Stassi. I’m delighted that the editor of Words Without Borders asked me to talk a bit about the challenges…...read more »