Monthly Archives: August 2021

Review: Across The Nightingale Floor

In the following, I will talk about Lian Hearn’s Across The Nightingale Floor, an Australian fantasy novel. You might wonder why Australian fantasy specifically? Why am I not saying it is a fantasy book? There is a reason for that. … Continue reading

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Language and Form

by Selina Kraft, Anna Herkelmann, Laura Zimmermann and Sarah Riedel While translating “Oil”, not only the correctness of the translation was a problem we had to face in the process. “Oil”, a poem by Fatimah Asghar, is about a teenage … Continue reading

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Translating and Keeping the Respect

by Annalena Steffens, Renee Czyganowski, Michelle Chiru and Audrey Heimann Translating a piece of writing from one language to another can lead to several difficulties, many of which we encountered during our project with Fatimah Asghar’s “Oil”, a poem in … Continue reading

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