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SUMMARY:Korney Chukovsky\, The Writer &amp\; Translator. Then and Now - Dr
  Megan Swift\, University of Victoria in Canada and Olga Bukhina\, indepen
 dent scholar
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online two-part talk marking 140th anniversary 
 of Korney Chukovsky\, Soviet children's literature writer and translator.\
 n\n1/ "Chukovsky\, Then and Now" by Dr. Megan Swift\, Professor\, Germanic
  and Slavic Studies\, University of Victoria in Canada\n\nKorney Chukovsky
  created a canon of Soviet children’s literature in the 1920s\, but he w
 as also the most popular children’s writer in post-Soviet Russia as late
  as 2016 with over 2.35 million copies of his works sold in that year alon
 e. This first part of our anniversary talk looks at how Chukovsky has been
  republished and re-illustrated for his new child (and parent) readers\, a
 nd how he provides a vital link between two generations divided by the fal
 l of Communism.\n\n2/ "Chukovsky as a Theoretician\, a Subject\, and an Ob
 ject of Translation" by Olga Bukhina\n\nKorney Chukovsky is not only a ver
 y famous children’s writer known to every child in Russia and beyond\; h
 e is not only a famous translator of British children’s and classical li
 terature\; he is also one of the first scholars of translation theory in R
 ussia. We will talk about Chukovsky’s ideas of a “high art” of trans
 lation\; we will see whether his understanding of the translator’s work 
 is outmoded or not. Chukovsky was particularly concerned with the question
  of accuracy vs. artistry in translation\; in his book\, he uses multiple 
 examples of what\, from his point of view\, are good and mediocre translat
 ions. We will also talk about Chukovsky’s own translations from English 
 into Russian for children and adults as well as about translations of Chuk
 ovsky’s narrative poems for children into English: contemporary translat
 ors also need to manoeuvre between the Scylla of accuracy and the Charybdi
 s of artistry.\n\n***The event is free to attend\, but we would welcome su
 ggested donations of £5-£10. Please contact us\, if you would like to do
 nate***
LOCATION:Online\, Zoom. Please register at https://tinyurl.com/22y5m2st
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