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Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

Is Translating Your Own Writing Really “Translation”?

Sibila Petlevski: “I have no pretension to speak on behalf of nature, but rather I let the green of the leaves speak for me.”

By Sibila Petlevski | April 21, 2025

Life After Kafka"> Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em

Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s <em

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Life After Kafka">Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

Alex Zucker on the Importance of Style and Voice in Literary Translation

By Alex Zucker | August 9, 2024

Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

Bridging the Gaps: On Writing and Revising a Novel in Two Languages

Julia Malye Explores Her Personal and Literary Relationship with French and English

By Julia Malye | June 21, 2024

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Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s <em

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The Dark Side of Skin">Translating Race: Bruna Dantas Lobato on Jeferson Tenório’s The Dark Side of Skin

“I let the racialized language live in the novel as it ought to, to stand as is.”

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | February 14, 2024

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

“We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”

By Heather Cleary | December 14, 2023

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

Fear of Indirect Contact: Todd Portnowitz on Translating Jhumpa Lahiri

"We resent that there’s an interpretive element to translation."

By Todd Portnowitz | October 10, 2023

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Lisa Dillman Shares a Translator's Secrets to Unpacking Meaning

By Lisa Dillman | July 7, 2016

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Idra Novey on Being Suspended Between Languages

By Idra Novey | February 25, 2016