Susan Sontag Foundation Translation Prize Seminar
Friday, November 12, 3:30 – 4:30 pm, 5 – 6 pm & 8:30 pm

The 2010 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation was awarded to Benjamin Mier-Cruz, a Ph.D. candidate in Scandinavian Languages and Literature at UC Berkeley, for his proposed translation of selected letters and poems by the Finnish-Swedish author Elmer Diktonius (1896 – 1961). In celebration of the prize, programs will include panels on literary translation, and on Diktonius and Finland-Swedish literature, and a screening of the rare Sontag film, Duet for Cannibals/Duett för kannibaler (Sweden, 1969).

Special thanks to the Honorary Consulate General of Sweden, New York; the Consulate General of Finland, New York; and Jacob Perlin, BAMcinématek.

The Challenges of Literary Translation Today
3:30 – 4:30 pm
FREE

Elmer Diktonius, Finland-Swedish Literature, and Modernism in Scandinavia
5 – 6 pm
FREE

Duet for Cannibals/Duett för kannibaler
8:30 pm
$10 ($7 ASF Members)

Directed by Susan Sontag (Sweden, 1969). In Sontag’s directorial debut a university professor and his wife hire a young man to help the professor arrange his papers for publication. The young man moves in with the couple, leaving his mistress to take the position. He soon discovers that things are not quite right with the dysfunctional duo. 105 min.