San Simon, Galicia poetry Translation Workshop

  • Merja and Margrét on the boat to the island
  • at work on San Simon
  • The poets perform their work
  • San Simon Island
  • Brane and Margrét
  • Boats at San Simon
  • disembarking at San Simon Island
  • The whole group - Yolanda Castaño, Merja Virolainen, Marko Pogačar, Margrét Lóa Jónsdóttir, Sergej Timofejev, Brane Mozetič and Txema Martínez

Participants Sergej Timofejev (Latvia), Yolanda Castaño (Galicia) and Txema Martinez (Catalonia) on San Simon island.

28th October – 3rd November,
San Simon, Redondela & Vigo, Galicia, Spain

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Marko Pogačar (Croatia)
, Margrét Lóa Jonsdóttir (Iceland)
, Brane Mozetič (Slovenia)
, Sergej Timofejev (Russia/Latvia), Txema Martínez (Catalonia), Merja Virolainen (Finland)
 and Yolanda Castaño (Galicia) came together on the island of San Simón and the city of Vigo in our first translation workshop in Galicia. Initiated and led by the Galician poet Yolanda Castaño the poets spent a week steeped in each other’s literary traditions, working on translations of each other’s poetry. There were public readings at the Museo do Mar – the Museum of the Sea – in Vigo and at the Redondela Public Library.

Literature Across Frontiers is grateful for the support of the following organizations for this workshop: Xunta de Galicia, Fundación illa de San Simón, Concello de Pontevedra, Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega, Fundación Carlos Casares, Universidade de Vigo – Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución, Museo do Mar de Galicia and the Concello de Redondela.

An article on the workshop written by Sergej Timofejev in Russian  is available here.