Professor Jacqueline Hurtley gives the 2025 Joanot Martorell Lecture at the Centre for Catalan Studies

Professor Jacqueline Hurtley of the University if Barcelona is an expert on Catalan publishing and the biographer of Walter Starkie. Her lecture “Translation or transcreation? English-language authors, Catalan translators and publishers, 1920–1938” covered writers such as George Eliot and Joseph Conrad. There were cases of adaptation, as to be expected, but also almost moral censorship transforming texts into the opposite of their meaning.