2018 Sant Jordi Celebration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

For this year’s Sant Jordi, we will revisit Joanot Martorell’s work “Tirant lo Blanc,” on the 550^th anniversary of his death and read poetry by the Amherst native Emily Dickinson, in translation by Marcel Riera. One student who is studying a minor in Catalan will also present and read her English translation of “El tren de Bagdad” by Manuel Forcano. Finally, our translation contest, now an Amherst tradition, will be dedicated to Maria-Mercè Marçal on the twentieth anniversary of her death.