{"id":704,"date":"2025-11-10T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/?p=704"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:19:36","slug":"ata66-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/2025\/11\/10\/ata66-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA66 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


by Kate Deimling<\/p>\n\n\n\n


ATA66 in Boston was a great conference, with lots of goings-on for the Literary Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Our distinguished speaker, Larissa Kyzer<\/a><\/strong>, gave two terrific presentations, on \u201cThrowing Spaghetti at the Wall: Making Big Choices in Literary Translation\u201d and \u201cFinding and Building Community as a Freelance Translator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The distinguished speakers of the Korean Division<\/strong>, Slavic Division<\/strong>, and Portuguese Division<\/strong> all gave talks on literary translation, showing what a vital role our field plays within ATA. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Flora

The Portuguese Language Division\u2019s distinguished speaker Flora Thomson-DeVeaux discussed her translation of Brazilian writer Machado de Assis\u2019s masterpiece The Posthumous Memoirs of Br\u00e1s Cubas<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Presentations on book translation and literary translation were given by speakers including Stelyios Muksuris<\/strong>, Bo Ai<\/strong>, Shelley Fairweather-Vega<\/strong>, Maggie Smith<\/strong>, Laurie Bennett<\/strong>, and Cecilia Sol\u00eds-Bautista & Gabriel Gonz\u00e1lez Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Shelley

Shelley Fairweather-Vega discussing her translation of We Computers<\/em> (a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Matt Griffin<\/strong> presented the Ungar Translation Award<\/strong> to Tess Lewis<\/strong> for her translation of Lutz Seiler\u2019s novel Star 111<\/em><\/a>. Unfortunately, Tess was unable to receive the award in person, but Matt read her very thoughtful and heartfelt acceptance speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrea Nemeth-Newhauser<\/strong> organized another great edition of the After Hours Caf\u00e9<\/strong>, featuring readings of translations from German, Portuguese, French, Korean, Russian, Uzbek, Icelandic, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salvador Virgen reading at the After Hours Caf\u00e9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n


We enjoyed a lively lunch at Porter Square Books on the waterfront, where Shelley Fairweather-Vega<\/strong> passed the baton to Kate Deimling<\/strong> and Petra Rieker<\/strong>, the Lit Div\u2019s incoming administrator and assistant administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Shelley

Shelley introducing Kate and Petra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Porter

The caf\u00e9 at Porter Square Books, site of the Lit Div lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Group

A great group at the Lit Div lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kate Deimling ATA66 in Boston was a great conference, with lots of goings-on for the Literary Division. Our distinguished speaker, Larissa Kyzer, gave two terrific presentations, on \u201cThrowing Spaghetti at the Wall: Making Big Choices in Literary Translation\u201d and \u201cFinding and Building Community as a Freelance Translator.\u201d The distinguished speakers of the Korean Division, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/LD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}