What great eyes you have. Do you know the dark origins of the happy fairy tales you grew up with?
Kate Forsyth on Drive - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Kath Forsyth, Red and the fairy tales grimm - ABC Victoria - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Once upon a time there was a man called Red, who wore tights, make up and cut a swathe through our fair land with his axe ( all true! ) but did you know Goldilocks was eaten by the three bears and Rap - Red and the fairy tales grimm
http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2012/03/red-and-the-fairy-tales-grimm.html
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TWO VOICES: Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar Talk Translating Fairy Tales
Orignal source Two Voices: Events from the Center for the Art of Translation
This Two Voices audio brings you a panel on the unique role fairy tales play in international literature. Acclaimed writer Kate Bernheimer, widely praised poet Ilya Kaminsky, and folklore and mythology expert Maria Tatar discuss the tales and rsquo; role in literature, and how they function in translation. It begins, of course, with a reading of a fairy tale. Tatar introduces the tale as the French and ldquo;Story of the Grandmother, and rdquo; though any audience would immediately recognize it as one we know by the name of its protagonist, Little Red Riding Hood. Brief though it is, this version includes every detail American audiences know about the tale while still being remarkably unsettling; each familiar line is presented with an eerily sexual undertone, the threat seeming that much more dire. In the story and rsquo;s conclusion, Little Red becomes a trickster herself …
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TWO VOICES: A Night of Fairy Tales
Orignal source Two Voices: Events from the Center for the Art of Translation
In this audio from the Center for the Art of Translation’s Two Voices events series we present four deliciously dark fairy tales. Author Kate Bernheimer is joined by fairy tale expert Maria Tatar and poet/translator Ilya Kaminsky. Plus, the Center’s own Managing Editor and Literary Programs Manager CJ Evans shares a fairy tale that was much too dark for his infant daughter.
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