TALK: Talking in Tongues: Translating Others and Myself
Peter Wortsman
Tuesday, May 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
For author, playwright, translator Peter Wortsman, translation is an essential part of his creative process, both as a daily meditation and warm-up exercise, and as a source of material for his dramatic work. His play “The Tattooed Man Tells All” (2000), of which he will read a short excerpt, is freely adapted from interviews with aging concentration camp survivors, now comprising The Peter Wortsman Collection at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.
Sponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature, Dept. of French & Italian, Dept. of German, Slavic & Semitic Studies, Comparative Literature Program, and the IHC
