No Island is an Island: Literary Translation in Australia

Brigid Maher has translated several works of literary fiction from Italian into English, including historical fiction by Bianca Pitzorno, coming-of-age novels by Nicola Lagioia and Massimo Donati, and a gangster’s memoir of life (and Shakespeare) in a Neapolitan prison. She is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at La Trobe University, where she teaches Italian language, […]

An emerging Japanese-to-English translator currently completing her PhD in Translation Studies, where her research explores the polysemic concept of voice in translation. She completed her Master’s degree in T&I in 2023 and was a recipient of the AUSIT Student Award. As part of her Master’s, she undertook a practice-based research project on translating Japanese onomatopoeia. […]

Nadia Niaz is the author of The Djinn Hunters (2023, Rabbit Press), which was Highly Commended in the 2023 Anne Elder Award, and the founding editor of the Australian Multilingual Writing Project. Most recently, her poetry was featured in Reading the City of Literature: A celebration of a year of Melbourne writing and publishing (2023). […]