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Source is the official
quarterly online newsletter of the Literary Division of the
American Translators Association. Source
includes articles on literary translation, on authors, interviews
with authors and translators, tips for literary translation,
literary translation pedagogy, reviews of literary translations
and literary translation journals, and news and events about
literary translation. Submissions to Source
are open year round and may be sent via electronic transmission
or by surface mail to the Administrator of the Literary Division.
ld@ata-divisions.org
Beacons logo created by Michele Mckay
Aynesworth, Ph.D.
Beacons is an annual
peer-reviewed journal of literature in translation published
by the Literary Division. Well-known and published literary
translators serve on the editorial board and each year a guest
editor is selected. In 2007 Beacons
goes into a dual format with an online edition and a print-on-demand
version of similar quality and format to previous hard copy
editions of Beacons. The online
version of Beacons will also include
pictures of authors and translators when available, the translator's
commentary on the texts, audio clips of readings and interviews,
links to and from other Web sites, graphics, concrete poetry,
animation, and hypertext works.
In a New Light
In the search for a title for a proposed
anthology of short fiction and poetry in translation, the
name Beacons thrust itself into consciousness with the clarity
of its physical counterpart. The metaphor is appropriate,
for a beacon both calls and alerts. The authors represented
here call to us through the urgency of their writing, at the
same time alerting us to the cultural and linguistic distance
that separates us. As a beacon, or lighthouse, needs a keeper
(or mediator), so writers who work in other tongues need interme¬diaries–their
translators–to make their thoughts known to us. A beacon
communicates from afar, as do these voices as distant in space
as Japan, as remote in time as sixth century Arabia. If the
glare of recognition can sometimes be blinding, this is the
price we gladly pay when suddenly forced to recognize the
oneness that transcends all barriers of nationhood and language
to unite us as a species. Finally, in the manner of a beacon
raising its beam above the surrounding sea, writers like the
men and women in this anthology stand out for their insight,
their originality, and their commitment to the endless human
quest for meaning.
Clifford E. Landers, Editor
Beacons 1992
Deadline for submissions to Beacons
is April 1 each year, with publication in September. Submission
guidelines are posted under the Beacons
tab on the Literary Division webpage.
http://www.ata-divisions.org/LD/call_submission.htm.
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