Events
Recommendations from Latin America - Auckland Writers Festival 2024
Daniel Hahn has been translating fiction from Portuguese and Spanish for over a decade. Get ready to build your ultimate Latin American reading list with him as your guide.
Argentina & Brazil & Colombia & Guatemala & Aotearoa New Zealand
Daniel Hahn
Sunday , 19 May 2024, 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with over a hundred books to his name. His books include Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, and the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature; and translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) from Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Recent translations include fiction from Angola, Brazil, Spain, Guatemala and Argentina, children's picture-books from Portugal and France, and works of non-fiction about dreams, death and lighthouses. His work has won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Dublin Literary Award and been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, among numerous others.
He is a past chair of the Society of Authors (the UK writers' union) and on the board of many organisations working with literature, translation and free speech. He currently translating a Colombian novel, compiling an anthology of Brazilian short stories and writing a book about Shakespeare in translation.
Supported by Latin American CAPE
Event website
Media
Radio New Zealand, 8 May 2024. Daniel Hahn on interpreting literary works. Nine to Noon.