Translators

The acclaimed author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has pulled out of translating Amanda Gorman's poetry into Dutch, after their publisher was criticised for picking a writer for the role who was not also Black.
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The translator is a writer. The writer is a translator. How many times have I run up against these assertions? - in a chat between translators protesting because they are not listed in a publisher's index of authors; or in the work of literary theorists, even poets ("Each text is unique, yet at the same time it is the translation of another text," observed Octavio Paz).  Read more

In May 2018, Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft won the Man Booker International Prize for Flights, a novel that was published in Poland in 2007. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, for which Tokarczuk is a Booker finalist again this year, was translated a bit faster; it only took a decade.  Read more

This year, for the first time, the National Book Foundation awarded a National Book Award for Translated Literature.  Read more

Amazon's rapid rise to prominence in the translation of foreign prose to English - which has drawn appreciation, but also some suspicion by members of the translation community - is yet another sign of the online retailer's growing cultural significance.