A Christmas poem and Miroslav Krleža's The Ballads at ninety.
Merry Christmas!
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A Poem for Budget Day - Our translation of the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža’s A Lamentation over Tax and Tribute from his 1936 collection The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh. open.substack.com/pub/vanessap...

I am really looking forward to this BISA workshop organised by the BISA SEE group and Liverpool University. My paper is on the Lost Art of Translation in International Studies and Representations of War in South East Europe. Message me if you want a copy of my paper. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Why the Roll Call?
An answer to a good critical question on my translation Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1917 poem ‘K ответу’
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Hurled into Modernity: A footnote on Crnjanski and the Russian Futurists and a translation of Mayakovsky's 1917 poem ‘K ответу’ vanessapupavac.substack.com/p/hurled-int...

Translation matters in international studies vanessapupavac.substack.com/p/translatio...

Translation of a poem for New Year

Miroslav Krleža's 'The Almanac'

'The breeze from Medvednica
Companion of the deer...'

From The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh (1936)

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A Christmas Eve poem The Frost Fiend

'Oh, woe to be a naked newborn babe, a bare basil shoot,

Of the nativity with donkey and oxen mute...'

Translation of the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža's 1936 poem The Frost Fiend, from his 1936 Ballads collection
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As the public raises fears over our political leaders sleepwalking into another world war: Miroslav Krleža's Galicia or The Croatian Camp (1922) set on the Eastern Front during WWI in autumn 1916: open.substack.com/pub/vanessap...

The Translation’s The Thing...
'Nowhere has ever been so,
And here...never not been so...
Miroslav Krleža’s KHEVENHILLER from the poem cycle The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh (1936)
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