Amaia gabantxo biography of rory

  • Amaia Gabantxo: Euskara/Basque to English.
  • Although he spent much of his life as an expatriate, Roberto Bolaño was one of the most respected and acclaimed Chilean authors of modern times.
  • Translated into English by Amaia Gabantxo – arguably the most prestigious contemporary Basque to English translator –.

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    Lockdown by Mark Jacquemain

    to Caity P.

    When it happens we’re in drama class, still caring about stuff that doesn’t matter. Like Final Project. It’s nearly the end of semester, so we’re in that stretch that’s allabout Final Project. Which is why Yasmin wants to get right to it. Our group is miming an erupting volcano, and she thinks that gives us so much to work with. All week she’s been saying: “Guys, come on, we have so much to work with.” Yasmin’s like that, grade-crazy, and expects it to come out like Shakespeare or whatever. So she’s all frantic cause it’s due in a week and we don’t have much done, other than some lava dances and some screaming and freaking out. And those parts are really lame. She’s started calling it an actual natural disaster.

    We don’t care like she does, but “getting right to it” means skipping Miss Janetti’s warm-ups, so we have Yasmin’s back. Paige tells Miss Janetti, “Seriously, we’re so far behind.” Jacqueline says, “Please, Miss Janett

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    By now, our fandom of translators should be no secret. We’ve spoken to contemporary translators about the politics of grammar and how to render a slender neck from Arabic poetry, about imperialism and swearing in Tamil and before that, we chopped it up with others about translating slang and living in a two-translator household.  

    We couldn’t stop chatting (and there are so many interesting characters!) so here is part four featuring seven translators, who work in heritage and non-heritage languages—Nepali, Spanish, Euskara/Basque, French, Indonesian, and Icelandic. Amongst the ways they began translating include telephone conversations with Nepalese aunties in Singapore, by living with ambient sounds of rapidly-changing conversion rates of the U.S. dollar in ’80s Buenos Aires, by falling in love with a language during a layover, and by re-imagining British children’s adventure novels in Indonesian. 

    The expansiveness of our conversations and the pointed geekiness over comparative

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    Organization 2666: Literary Troubling, Undoing and Refusal [1st ed.] 9783658296490, 9783658296506

    Table of contents :
    Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
    As if One Could Provide an Introduction to Organization 2666 (Damian O’Doherty, Sine N. Just, Christian Huber, Christian dem Cock)....Pages 1-17
    Bolaño Versus Business Strategy (Robin Holt)....Pages 19-43
    Reading as Theorizing. A Conjecture Based on the Savage Detectives’ Mode of Inquiry (José Ossandón)....Pages 45-61
    The Key to Our Century and the Mystery at Port-Vendres (Fabian Muniesa)....Pages 63-72
    The Absent Witness: Bolaño’s 2666 as a Case of Fictional Accountability (Christian Huber)....Pages 73-87
    Living, Reading, and Dying in the Didactic Void: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Organized Literature (Mrinalini Greedharry)....Pages 89-107
    Encounters with the Undead: Reading the Other(S) in Bolaño’s 2666 (rashné limki)....Pages 109-127
    Machismo as a Mode of Organizing (Gibson Burrell)....Pages 129-150
    Bolaño’s Black Smoke: The