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Celebrating Lorca

10 June 2019

celebrating Lorca

On 21 March, Dr Macarena Jimenez Naranjo and Dr Tyler Fisher held a rollicking end-of-term session on translating Lorca's Romancero gitano in the English ballad form. The event in the Foster Court Common Room drew upon Macarena's incorporation of literary texts in the Spanish language classroom, as well as Tyler's publication of Lorca's poetry and experimental drama in English translation, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin 2018). With live music by second-year student Maria Olejnik on the ukelele, rousing recitations, extemporaneous songs, and an abundance of good food, it was