Lara Norgaard

Publishing initiatives, collaborative translation projects, free-access content on pressing political and cultural questions, and more.

  • Paraphrasis

    Mar 2024

    Paraphrasis is a podcast dedicated to the art and practice of literary translation, brought to you by a team of graduate students in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard. In each episode, we welcome an established or emerging translator onto the show, asking them how they fell in love with their source text. This simple question leads to insightful, at times profound, conversations about moments of encounter, acts of interpretation, and perspectives on foreign literary traditions that lie behind the published translations we find on our bookshelves.Paraphrasis is hosted by Anna Hennigan and co-produced by Lara Norgaard and Jess Jensen Mitchell, with sound production services provided by J.E. Petersen and Tyler Morrisette at Voltage. Our music is composed by Gianriccardo Poli Schnapp and our logo designed by Daniele Ledda at XyComm. The podcast is supported by the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in conjunction with the Department’s new graduate secondary field in Translation Studies. 

    https://www.paraphrasispodcast.com/

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  • Pandemonium

    Nov 2020

    A free-access collection of short fiction detailing experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic between Berlin and São Paulo. I organized and edited the English translation of the original Portuguese-language collection.

    http://pandemonioantologia.com

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  • Artememoria: Identities

    May 2019

    Issue 3 of a free-access arts magazine on the memory of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and continuities in state violence. Featuring James Green, Neusa Maria Pereira, Vilma Arêas, Adriana Lisboa, and others.

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  • Artememoria: Places

    Nov 2018

    Issue 2 of a free-access arts magazine on the memory of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and continuities in state violence, on the intersection of space and collective memory.

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  • Artememoria: Witness Testimony

    Mar 2018

    Issue 1 of a free-access arts magazine on the memory of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and continuities in state violence. Featuring Bernardo Carvalho, Ricardo Lísias, and others.

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