On Translation

Two of the Best Translators in the Business Are Married (to Each Other) and Up For the Same Literary Award

A Conversation with Jennifer Croft and Boris Dralyuk About Raising Twins and Winning Awards

 
By Jonny Diamond  January 4, 2023
On Translation

Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

By Josh Billings  December 19, 2022
On Translation

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman  September 27, 2022
On Translation

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 13, 2022
On Translation

Do We Need a Support Group? How Translation Can—and Should—Be a Collective Effort

By Michele Hutchison  September 8, 2022
On Translation

Breaking Down the Translation Pyramid: On Translating Dhumketu’s Pioneering Short Stories from Gujarati

By Jenny Bhatt  August 1, 2022
On Translation

What Only Musicians and Translators Know

By Jessica Sequeira  July 20, 2022
On Translation

Amy B. Reid on Translating the Very Book She Needed to Read

By Amy B. Reid  July 14, 2022
On Translation

Rachel Careau on How Translating Roger Lewinter Helped Her Translate Colette

By Rachel Careau  July 8, 2022
On Translation

Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?

By Jhumpa Lahiri  May 19, 2022
On Translation

How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane

By Marian Schwartz  April 29, 2022
On Translation

Asadollah Amraee and Arezoo Salari on the Process of Translating The Elephant of Belfast and Its Resonance in Iran

By S. Kirk Walsh  April 21, 2022
On Translation

How Rumi Became a Poet

By Haleh Liza Gafori  March 9, 2022
On Translation

The Order of Things: Jennifer Croft on Translating Olga Tokarczuk

By Jennifer Croft  February 1, 2022
On Translation

The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel

By Annie McDermott  August 5, 2021
On Translation

The Mind-Expanding Practice of Translating Claudia Ulloa Donoso

By Lily Meyer  July 15, 2021
On Translation

On the Diplomatic Mistranslation That Changed the Course of History

By Anna Aslanyan  June 21, 2021
On Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
On Translation

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
On Translation

How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

By Will Schutt  January 12, 2021
On Translation

On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
On Translation

WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
On Translation

How an Italian Translator Found an Unlikely Home in the Utah Desert

By Sara Reggiani  September 30, 2020
On Translation

How the Art—and Love—of Translation Relies on Intuition

By Anne Posten  September 16, 2020
On Translation

On Rendering My Own Novel Into Spanish

By Carolina De Robertis  September 3, 2020
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