MIDDLEBURY Middlebury College reported four cases of COVID-19 on campus Friday, and the institution has announced it will now require facial coverings indoors and in all public venues on campus, eff
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. June 28 marked the beginning of the Middlebury Language Schools, known internationally for their full immersion approach to language teaching. This summer the Language Schools will welcome over 1,600 students and 300 faculty and staff to both the Middlebury College campus and online to study Abenaki, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The School of Japanese launched a Master’s in Japanese, and the School of Abenaki will host their first in-person two-week program with 24 students–after holding their inaugural session remotely in 2020.
Due to the pandemic, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Russian will operate online this summer. The School of Hebrew will have both online and in-person programs, while the remaining schools will all operate on the Middlebury campus in Vermont. Classes will be conducted online for the first week for all programs while in-person program participants complete the arri
Feb 20, 2021
In recent years, Japanese literature has earned a reputation abroad for its edgy, socially-conscious fiction, which translator Stephen Snyder, 63, has had a hand in encouraging. Snyder has translated titles like “Coin Locker Babies” by Ryu Murakami, “Out” by Natsuo Kirino and last year’s finalist for the International Booker Prize, “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa, which take on issues such as abandoned children, marginalized female factory workers and the role of literature in oppressed societies.
Snyder says how he chooses what to translate is “completely random.”
“After the success of my first translation, I chose novels I thought were the most interesting, whether they were literary or entertainment,” he says. “I’ve been incredibly lucky in picking the right ones because I’ve managed to translate some amazing novels, but there’s no rhyme or reason to my choices.”
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