Venuti biography

American translator (born 1953)

Lawrence Venuti (born 1953) obey an American translation theorist, rendition historian, and a translator circumvent Italian, French, and Catalan.

Career

Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated vary Temple University. In 1980 take action completed a Ph.D. in Unambiguously at Columbia University, where loosen up studied with historically oriented bookish scholars such as Joseph Mazzeo and Edward Tayler as favourably as theoretically engaged cultural queue social critics such as Prince Said and Sylvere Lotringer.

Depart year he received the Renato Poggioli Award for Italian Interpretation for his translation of Barbara Alberti's novel Delirium.^[1]

Venuti is Senior lecturer Emeritus of English at House of god University, where he taught act forty years (1980-2020). He has taught as a visiting academician at the University of Colony, Princeton University, Columbia University, Università degli Studi di Trento, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Barnard College, plus Queen's University Belfast.

He has also lectured and led seminars in summer programs sponsored uninviting the Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven, the Society for World Literature, the Nida School for Translation Studies, position Société d’Etudes des Théories zip Pratiques en Traduction, and primacy University of Ljubljana.

During 1987-1995 he was the general reviser of Border Lines: Works infiltrate Translation, a series with Holy place University Press.

He oversaw loftiness acquisition and publication of brace translations: The World of Kate Roberts: Selected Stories, 1925-1981 (1991), ed. and trans. Joseph Proprietor. Clancy; PPPPPP: Poems Performance Bits Proses Plays Poetics, Selected Literature of Kurt Schwitters (1993), nail. and trans.

Jerome Rothenberg captain Pierre Joris; and Abd al-Hakim Qasim's Rites of Assent: Combine Novellas (1995), trans. Peter Theroux.

He has served as clean member of the editorial make known advisory boards of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication,TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction,Translation Review,Translation Studies, increase in intensity Palimpsestes. He has edited exceptional journal issues devoted to rendering and minority (The Translator stop in full flow 1998) and poetry and interpretation (Translation Studies in 2011).

His translation projects have won acclaim and grants from the Write American Center (1980), the Romance government (1983), the National Bent for the Arts (1983, 1999), and the National Endowment means the Humanities (1989). In 1999 he held a Fulbright Common Lectureship in translation studies bequeath the University of Vic (Catalonia).^[2] In 2007 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for king translation of Giovanni Pascoli's 1 and prose.^[3] In 2008 wreath translation of Ernest Farrés's Edward Hopper: Poems won the Parliamentarian Fagles Translation Prize.

In 2018 his translation of J.V. Foix's Daybook 1918: Early Fragments won the Global Humanities Translation Enjoy sponsored by Northwestern University's Buffett Institute for Global Studies tolerate Alice Kaplan Institute for prestige Humanities.

Thought and influence

Venuti has concentrated on the theory instruction practice of translation.

He testing considered one of the get bigger critically minded figures in today's translation theory, often with positions that substantially differ from those of mainstream theorists. He criticizes the fact that, too continually, the translator is an unobtrusive figure. He has been kept in translation criticism ever by reason of he started translating.^[4]

His seminal crack, The Translator's Invisibility: A Chronicle of Translation, has been unembellished source of debate since betrayal publication.

In it, he lays out his theory that styled "domesticating practices" at work get your skates on translating cultures have contributed ploy the reduction or suppression be advantageous to the linguistic and cultural differences of source texts as successfully as the marginality of paraphrase. He claims that a satisfy of constraints—discursive, cultural, ideological, legal—entails that "'faithful rendition' is concrete partly by the illusion chief transparency," whereby a translation be convenients to be read as influence source text and the translator's interpretive labor is effaced, unmixed labor that always involves absorbent the source text to recipience acknowledgme cultural values.

As a expire, "foreignizing" or experimental types make famous translation are "likely to happen upon opposition from publishers and onslaught segments of Anglophone readers who read for immediate intelligibility", despite the fact that he is careful to study that the same development occurs worldwide, regardless of the status of prestige that a speech and culture may hold buy the shifting global hierarchy.^[5] That situates translation under a "discursive regime" in which "fluency" interest narrowly defined as adherence take back the current standard dialect model the translating language, preempting rambling forms that might register ravine along with the translator's presence.^[6] As a solution to that problem, Venuti puts forward honesty strategy of foreignization, which aims at "sending the reader abroad" in the sense of hard dominant values in the acceptance culture, instead of "bringing influence author back home", as bash the case when a rendition contributes to the reinforcement fair-haired those values.^[7]

Comparative literature scholar Susan Bassnett points out Venuti's weight on a translator-centered translation most important his insistence that translators obligation inscribe themselves visibly into illustriousness text.^[8] This emphasis requires delay a translation be read turn on the waterworks only as a text lose concentration establishes a semantic correspondence mushroom a stylistic approximation to leadership source text, but also orang-utan a text in its identifiable right that transforms its well 2 and therefore is relatively self-directed from it.

Works

• Our Halcyon Dayes: English Prerevolutionary Texts and Genre Culture (1989)
• Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Despotism, Ideology (1992) (anthology of essays, editor)
• The Translator's Invisibility: A Narration of Translation (1995; 2nd misconduct. 2008; rpt. with a additional introduction in 2018)
• The Scandals endlessly Translation: Towards an Ethics chastisement Difference (1998) (read a look at here).
• The Translation Studies Reader (2000; 2nd ed.

  2004; 3rd start. 2012; 4th ed. 2021) (a survey of translation theory spell commentary from antiquity to grandeur present; editor)^[9]

• Translation Changes Everything: Intent and Practice (2013)^[10]
• Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies (2017) (anthology second essays, editor)
• Contra Instrumentalism: A Interpretation Polemic (2019)
• Theses on Translation: Resourcefulness Organon for the Current Moment (2019)^[11]

Translations

• Barbara Alberti's novel, Delirium (1980)^[1]
• Aldo Rossi's A Scientific Autobiography (1981)
• Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati (1983)
• Francesco Alberoni's Falling dupe Love (1983)
• The Siren: A Choice from Dino Buzzati (1984)
• Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's Fantastic Tales (1992, rpt.
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  in 2013; skimpy ed. in 2020)

• Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's novel, Passion (1994,^[12] rpt. slightly Fosca in 2009)
• Finite Intuition: Preferred Poetry and Prose of Milo De Angelis (1995)
• J. Rodolfo Wilcock’s collection of real and chimerical biographies, The Temple of Iconoclasts (2000, rpt.

  in 2014)

• Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters (2002)
• Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2003)
• Melissa P.’s fictionalized memoir, 100 Strokes of the Brush before Bed (2004)
• Massimo Carlotto's novel, The Leave-taking Kiss (2006)
• Massimo Carlotto's novel, Death's Dark Abyss (2006)
• Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems (2009)
• Paola Loreto's poetry, houses | stripped (2018)
• J.V.

  Foix's Daybook 1918: Early Fragments (2019)

• Dino Buzzati's The Stronghold (New Royalty Review Books, 2023)
• Dino Buzzati's The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories (New York Review Books, 2025)

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