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# A translator on the words that will not move
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-03-a-translator-on-the-words-that-will-not/
- Published: 2026-03-13T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:38.000Z
- Description: with Yuki Oda · 1h 15m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Yuki Oda has translated the same poet for eleven years and has published two of the poems. We talked mostly about the ones she has not.

> Some words are not difficult. They are simply not available. You can spend a decade being honest about that.  
> Yuki Oda

## In this episode

1. 05:00 The first poem, and the four versions she destroyed.
2. 21:30 On a single word she has never solved.
3. 38:00 Whether a translation can be finished at all.
4. 58:20 What her editor thinks of the timescale.
5. 1:09:00 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- *This Little Art* by Kate Briggs
- Barthes, inevitably
- A dictionary annotated by her grandmother

Recorded in a library study room, whispering.