In Praise of Aberrations: Ivana Hostová and Peter Milčák on Translating Slovak Poetry into English

Can translations reveal gender dimensions of both the poets and the translators? By what routes does Slovak poetry reach international readers? What kind of poetry makes the journey, and who funds it? How many translators does it take to render two thousand Slovak poems into another language? The new ASPEKT book In Praise of Aberrations: Slovak Poetry and Translation after 1989 will be presented in a conversation with its author Ivana Hostová, publisher Jana Cviková, and poet-publisher Peter Milčák, whose Modrý Peter has been bringing Slovak poetry also across borders for three decades.

Event in cooperation with the feminist organization ASPEKT www.aspekt.sk