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BEL OLID<\/strong> (Matar\u00f3, 1977)<\/p>\n

Writer, translator, and literature and creative writing teacher. They are known for their intense translation activity into Catalan and into Spanish, especially of children’s literature. They translate from German, Spanish, French, English, and Italian. They have received many literary awards, such as the Premio Documenta (2010).<\/p>\n

They became known as an author in 2010 when they received the Documenta Prize for their novel Una terra solit\u00e0ria<\/em> (Emp\u00faries, 2011). Bel Olid has never stopped publishing and translating all sorts of works. Among their production, the main genre is young andult and children’s literature, about which they have written some theoretical reflections, such as Les hero\u00efnes contraataquen<\/em> (Pag\u00e8s Editors, 2011), Premi Rovell\u00f3, an essay on gender roles in children’s literature. They have also worked as an essayist with key works in the discussion of feminism, such as Feminisme de butxaca, kit de superviv\u00e8ncia<\/em> (Angle Editorial, 2017) or Follem?<\/em> (Bridge, 2019)<\/p>\n

In 2020 they published A contrapel <\/em>(Capit\u00e1n Swing, 2020), their last contribution to the feminist debate and in 2021 Suite TOC<\/em> (Ara Llibres, 2021), which advocates for the fight against the taboo of mental illness. As a translator, Bel Olid has brought into Catalan Problemes de g\u00e8nere<\/em> (Angle Editorial, 2021) [Gender Trouble], by Judith Butler, one of the fundamental works in the theory of feminism.  <\/p>\n

Bel Olid regularly collaborates in many branches of the cultural media and written press. They were president of CEATL (European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations, 2013-2015), and, from March 2015 to March 2022, president of Associaci\u00f3 d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC \u2013 Association of Catalan Language Writers).<\/p>\n

The importance of understanding: privilege and incomprehension in the field of translation<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last years, there\u2019s been more and more debate about the position from which certain texts are translated. The criticism of Janice Deul when a white person was chosen to translate Amanda Gorman\u2019s texts into Dutch resulted not only in Marieke Lucas Rijneveld\u2019s refusal to translate them but also in the Catalan translation by Victor Obiols not being published.<\/p>\n

Beyond questioning if \u201ca man can translate a woman\u201d or whether or not \u201ca person who does not suffer racism can translate a racialized person\u201d, what\u2019s the impact of the translator\u2019s privilege on the understanding of the original texts? What mechanisms can be established to prevent the distance between the translator\u2019s and writer\u2019s experiences from hindering an optimal translation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEL OLID (Matar\u00f3, 1977) Writer, translator, and literature and creative writing teacher. They are known for their intense translation activity into Catalan and into Spanish, especially of children’s literature. They translate from German, Spanish, French, English, and Italian. They have received many literary awards, such as the Premio Documenta (2010). They became known as an author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/simposi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}