Ani Gjika is an Albanian American poet, literary translator, and author of Bread on Running Waters (2013). She is a 2016 NEA Literary Translation Fellow and a 2010 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow.
Ani Gjika
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Breaking the ESL Student’s Imagination
The creation of vivid, readable, and faithful translations of literary works into English calls not only for considerable expertise in the original language, but also for consummate writerly skill in the so-called target language—usually, one imagines, that of a native speaker. So what could anyone expect to achieve by teaching literary translation to students of […]
