Self-Portrait of Translation: George McWhirter in Conversation
The Nest Festival House, 1398 Cartwright St 3rd Floor, Vancouver, British ColumbiaPoet, translator, and teacher George McWhirter was Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate, and holds a startlingly impressive list of awards and honours since then, most recently as translator from Spanish of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Mexican novelist, activist, and journalist Homero Aridjis. In conversation with author …