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French connection17 June 2009
Award-winning translator Marc Orlando has gained a reputation for bringing the realities of war to a global audience. Now he is leading a unique new course in translation studies in the Faculty of Arts in partnership with Jean Moulin University, Lyon III, in his native France. A former English teacher in France, Mr Orlando was working as a freelance translator and interpreter in New Zealand in 2005 when he was asked to translate into French a report in New Zealand's Metro magazine by Iraq-based independent war correspondent Jon Stephenson. The duo's collaboration culminated in Mr Stephenson winning the prestigious 2006 Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents, while Mr Orlando's translation was recognised with a 2007 award for excellence in translating by AUSIT, the professional association for translators and interpreters in Australia. "It was an incredible encounter," Mr Orlando said. "He had spent four months in Iraq as a non-embedded journalist, hiding in caves and with local people. "We worked together for three months and really polished a translation that eventually competed against original French articles." That success and Mr Orlando's personal connection with Jean Moulin University, Lyon III aided the establishment of the new Double Master of Translation Studies in French and English at Monash. The course allows students to immerse themselves in two distinct cultures, as they spend a year in Australia and a year in France, and graduate with degrees from the two universities. During the course students will be offered an internship with a company in France, and can be recommended for accreditation as a translator in Australia. The School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics currently offers masters studies in 11 languages and plans to establish similar double master partnerships with universities in Italy, Germany and Latin America. The Double Master in Translation Studies will commence in the second semester of 2009. |
