Translating the World with Rainer Schulte

Enjoy an illuminating conversation between writer and artist Kendra Greene and Rainer Schulte, as they discuss her latest book, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See (Penguin Books, 2020). Listen as they immerse into the fantastic world of museums, Giftschranks , and the wonders, that as Kendra writes, are “there for the taking, ready to be uncovered at any moment, if only we keep our eyes open....

Listen to this insightful conversation with award-winning Brazilian writer Bernardo Kucinski, whose novel K garnered international critical acclaim. K is the story of a father who searches for his daughter, disappeared during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The first Brazilian edition sold out in a few weeks, and was shortlisted for many literary awards. In this episode Kucinski discusses how...

In this new episode, Dr. Rainer Schulte and Dr. Sarah Valente speak with Dr. Thomas Hoeksema, professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, about Bible translation and literature. Hoeksema is a founding member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and served as president of ALTA from 1989-1991. He has been a contributing editor and member of the Advisory Board of Translation...

In this episode, we speak with German publisher and editor Christine Becker about the life and works of her late husband Jurek Becker, the author of highly acclaimed works of literature, who garnered international acclaim with his debut novel Jacob the Liar, the first comic novel on the Holocaust. Christine Becker  has edited many of Jurek’s works, including a most recent collection of postca...

In this episode, guest host Dr. Shelby Vincent, research associate in the Center for Translation Studies and lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, interviews Colombian writer, art critic and curator, Juan Cárdenas and translator Lizzie Davis about Juan’s English-language debut novel Ornamental (Coffee House Press, 2020). Juan was named one the thirty-n...

This new episode features Dr. Ellen Elias-Bursać, one of the most prominent translators of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian of our time. Her well-known translation of David Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer is one of the more outstanding that came into the picture in recent years and had a really great impact in the United States. As the current president of the American Literary Translators Associati...

In this first episode of Translating the World with Rainer Schulte , guest host Sarah Valente interviews Rainer Schulte. They discuss the creation of ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association, which Rainer co-founded in 1978, and questions of translation studies, how translation has evolved in the 21st century, and the fundamental basic question of "What is Translation?"

Introducing the new podcast