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Women in Translation featuring Oksana Lutsyshyna, Dolores Redondo, and Michael Meigs
August is Women in Translation Month! Come celebrate with Alienated Majesty and the Austin Area Translators & Interpreters Association. Austin-based, Ukrainian author and translator Oksana Lutsyshyna will read from her original fiction and poetry, including translations by Nina Murray. Local translator Michael Meigs will read from his translations of Spanish noir author Dolores Redondo. Conversation and refreshments will follow. Masks encouraged.
Women in Translation Month is an annual celebration of women writers from around the world, writing in languages other than English. More information is available at www.womenintranslation.org.
AATIA, the Austin Area Translators & Interpreters Association, is one of the leading resources and advocates for the translation and interpretation community in the United States.
✦✦✦ ABOUT THE READERS ✦✦✦
Oksana Lutsyshyna is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, poet, and literary translator. She is the author of Persephone Blues (poetry, Arrowsmith, 2019), Ivan and Phoebe (a novel, in the English translation by Nina Murray, Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023; in the original, Old Lion Publishers, 2019), Felicity's Poems (poetry, in Ukrainian, Old Lion Publishers, 2018), Love Life (a novel, in the English translation by Nina Murray, HURI, 2024; in the original, Old Lion Publishers, 2015), I Am Listening to the Song of America (poems, in Ukrainian, Old Lion Publishers, 2010), The Sun Seldom Sets (novel, in Ukrainian, Fakt, 2007), Without Blushing (short stories, Fakt, 2007), and two more poetry collections. She was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Award in Fiction (2021), Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize (2020), Kovalevy Fund Award (2011), Blahovist Poetry Award (1998), and Hranoslov Poetry Award (1996). In collaboration with Olena Jennings, she translates contemporary Ukrainian authors into English. Their translation of Kateryna Kalytko's poem "Having lost the keys to the world, where everyone sits" was selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology for 2023. Oksana Lutsyshyna holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches the Ukrainian language and Eastern European literatures in translation.
Dolores Redondo (born in San Sebastián in 1969) is the author of the Baztán Trilogy, the most important Spanish literary phenomenon in recent years. The three installments The Invisible Guardian (translated to English by Isabelle Kaufeler), The Legacy of the Bones (tr. Nick Caistor and Lorenza GarcÃa), and Offering to the Storm (tr. Caistor and Garcia) have reached more than four million loyal readers worldwide. Critics welcomed Redondo as one of the most original and influential writers of the noir genre in Spain, and she has continued to receive great praise for her writing. The trilogy was followed by All This I Will Give to You (tr. Michael Meigs), for which she was awarded the Premio Planeta 2016 Award. Her novel The North Face of the Heart (tr. Meigs) was published in October 2019 and in 2022 Esperando el diluvio (Awaiting the Flood) was a best-seller in Spain. Her works have been published worldwide in 36 languages.
Michael Meigs reviews theatre, translates literature from Spanish, Swedish, French and German, and since 2008 has published the online journal www.CTXLiveTheatre.com, dedicated to live narrative theatre in Central Texas. He served as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for more than thirty years, assigned abroad to Africa, Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He has graduate degrees in comparative literature, business, economics and national security studies.
