Lecture - Friday 23rd March

Here's the official invitation to the lecture on Friday:

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LECTURE IS IN AULA VI AND NOT IN AULA 5

Un invito alle conferenze di Prof. Jan Van Coillie dell’Università di Brussels sul tema

From Bluebeard to Little Red Patch.
Fairy tale illustrations as translation

venerdì, 23 marzo 2012, alle ore 8.30, aula VI, Villa Mirafiori


Oh how hard it is to play my game
for nobody knows the listener's name.
Translating Grimm for reading (aloud)

lunedì, 26 marzo 2012, alle ore 12.30, aula IX, Villa Mirafiori




Relatore

Jan Van Coillie teaches Dutch and children’s literature in translation at the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB) in Brussels and was acting chairman of the Belgian Centre for Children’s Literature. He has published widely on children’s poetry, fairy-tales and children’s literature generally. From 1999 till 2004 he was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedie van de jeugdliteratuur. He is also active as translator, especially of children’s picture books and potery.