How is literary translation different from other forms of translation? To oversimplify a little, non-literary translation such as commercial, legal, medical etc. tends to focus on the meaning of a ...
Apart from a select few such as Ann Goldstein—English translator of Elena Ferrante and other acclaimed Italian writers—literary translators often go unsung and unappreciated in the publishing world.
Popular paperbacks are being translated with the help of machines, raising anxiety among professionals in the field.
More than four hundred translators working in several dozen languages attended the American Literary Translators’ Association conference in Oakland this past weekend. The conference, known as ALTA, is ...
Words give us the power to create community, telling amazing stories for centuries to come — regardless of language. A national, now Tucson-based, organization has spent decades sharing the power of ...
“You don’t have your own field to plough, so you go to plough in other people’s fields,” said a commentator about literary translators, in the context of an incident that was discussed widely on the ...
SEATTLE — The literary translation community in the U.S. has a tradition of being highbrow, a carefully tended yet narrow reflection of the stirrings of global culture beyond the Anglosphere. Then ...
A new report just released by the Authors Guild on working conditions for translators in the U.S. reports that 65% of literary translators earned less than $20,000 in gross income in 2016 with only ...
The (IALA) is pleased to add two new members, Jennifer Manoukian and Alene Terzian-Zeitounian, to its Advisory Board. Dr.
Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other ...
A wartime effort to quickly translate work by Ukrainian novelists, poets and historians is underway — a project as political as it is cultural, authors and translators say. By Alexandra Alter As ...
The International Armenian Literary Alliance added two new members, Jennifer Manoukian and Alene Terzian-Zeitounian, to its Advisory Board.
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