{"id":254026,"date":"2007-08-08T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/08\/the-literary-translation-situation-in-brunei-darussalam\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:53","slug":"the-literary-translation-situation-in-brunei-darussalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/08\/the-literary-translation-situation-in-brunei-darussalam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Literary Translation Situation in Brunei Darussalam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200708a.htm#zr4\">Complete Review<\/a>  has a great post this morning about the literary scene in Brunei Darussalam.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there was a meeting of high ranking representatives to &#8220;express their concern over the future of the literature scenario in Brunei Darussalam.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They proposed for major works of local literary writers to be translated so that their books could be promoted globally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Translation (of local writings) is very important, as this would ensure that our writers are introduced to the world,&#8221; they said, adding that the ultimate goal is to see a local writer receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 10 to 20 years&#8217; time.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/DailyInfo\/News\/Archive\/Aug07\/080807\/nite12.htm\">Brudirect.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be shocked if any of you can name a single author from Brunei&#8212;this is why we turned on the comments, fyi&#8212;so obviously, they have a ways to go . . . That said, it sounds like the monthly magazine <i>Bahana<\/i> might help spread the word a bit, and their hearts and interest are in the right place. Not sure how easy it will be to find a translator, but if the government puts up a bit of funding to offset publication costs, some publisher will jump on this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael at Complete Review has a great post this morning about the literary scene in Brunei Darussalam. Recently, there was a meeting of high ranking representatives to &#8220;express their concern over the future of the literature scenario in Brunei Darussalam.&#8221; They proposed for major works of local literary writers to be translated so that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3616,726,1646],"class_list":["post-254026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-brunei-literature","tag-complete-review","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254026\/revisions\/328686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}