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Julia Sanches | When Literature Takes a Strange Turn...

by Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications

Lecture Humanities

Tue, Apr 7, 2026

12 PM – 1:20 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Some books do not follow common sense. A pangolin may talk or a dolphin get bullied. Perhaps there’s a settlement of people in outer space who live according to new myths, in an invented language, by unfamiliar rules. Or maybe a tree suffers from depression and a pick-up truck waxes sweet and nostalgic. As readers, we can let the experience wash over us. But how do we, as translators, approach a text that seeks to estrange us, when translation is the most intimate act of reading? Julia Sanches will explore this question through recent translations of contemporary literature from Spain and Brazil.
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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Julia Sanches

PTIC, Translator in Residence

PIIRS, Princeton University

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies

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