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JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN AND HIS AUTHORS
Courtesy Julia Sanches"I fell in love with French because it was like speaking a code. I grew up hearing all about my grandparents’ pasts, and I can’t shake the thought that both translating and...
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RON LESHEM AND HIS TRANSLATORS
"I am not megalomaniac enough to think that the source is necessarily better than the new works born in translation whenever talented people add their sensitivity to them.I feel very sad that my books...
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BRUNO BERNI AND HIS AUTHORS
“Once, during a panel on literary translation, they tweeted something I said: “Translators are lazy writers”. Of course those words were taken out of their context for media purposes, and despite the...
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ELLEN ELIAS-BURSAC AND HER AUTHORS
The picture I'm attaching was taken at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2015 by a fellow Banff participant, Monica de la Torre."There is a lively community of translators in Massachusetts (where I live),...
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FULVIO FERRARI AND HIS AUTHORS
“The biggest perk? We get the inner structure of texts way more than any other textual analysis will allow. Unfortunately, we are basically isolated and miss a wider contest where we could exchange...
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ABRAHAM B. YEHOSHUA AND HIS TRANSLATORS
"To my great regret, only three of my books have been translated into Arabic. […] I would’ve liked to have had many readers among the people of the Near East, in order to deepen our...
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TINA KOVER AND HER AUTHORS
"These books will still be here when I’m long gone."Tina Kover is an American literary translator living in the United Kingdom. She speaks French and some Italian and Spanish, along with a smattering...
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MOTOYUKI SHIBATA AND HIS AUTHORS
“It’s been all fun – I never translate what I don’t like. You are not creatively talented but you can translate works by those who have real creativity, and they thank you for translating their work,...
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ZYGMUNT MILOSZEWSKI AND HIS TRANSLATORS
Photo by Tisha Minö“I have heard extracts from my work being read aloud in several languages. It’s funny, but it always sounds more interesting than in Polish. In Polish, my own texts bore and irritate...
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PIOTR GWIAZDA AND HIS AUTHORS
“I have always been puzzled by translation as a pursuit and product. It is a thankless task, yet it offers an intellectual and artistic challenge like no other. It is a copy, always a copy, yet it...
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ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND HER AUTHORS
“Serving as cochair of PEN America’s Translation Committee, there is a whole new level of promotion and advocacy for translators. It’s been tremendously helpful for me to emerge from working in...
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TEGAN RALEIGH AND HER AUTHORS
"Translating literature is much like wandering the streets in Paris. Most of the time I just keep a regular pace. Every so often I get drawn into something that is especially beautiful or unusual and...
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LIONEL DAVOUST AND HIS AUTHORS
Photo Mélanie Fazi“Writing (and translating) are lonely activities. We write, pretending we do it solely for ourselves, apparently not caring if it reaches or speaks to anyone, but in truth (or at...
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ANNE-SYLVIE HOMASSEL AND HER AUTHORS
"This I love: being possessed by a snaky string of words, processing them and spouting them out in another language."Anne-Sylvie Homassel is a literary translator, English to French. In addition, she...
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KAN NOZAKI AND HIS AUTHORS
“Translators and authors are considered much the same in Japan. Therefore, it can happen that after publishing a translation someone will ask you to write something yourself, which is exactly what...
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JOHN LAMBERT AND LITERARY TRANSLATION
"You sit down, you create. That’s hugely enjoyable."John Lambert is a Canadian literary translator. He speaks English, French and German. He decided to answer our questions in English.How did you start...
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JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT ET SES TRADUCTEURS
"J’ai ouvert quelques fichiers et j’ai retrouvé une photo que j’avais prise à Tokyo en juin dernier :Voilà, c’est ça, des caissons lumineux, ai-je dit (et c’est ça aussi la traduction assistée par...
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LAURA SGARIOTO AND HER AUTHORS
“I always feel a very strong affinity with writers showing a brutally honest and genuinely ironic stance toward life, authors who dare call things by their right name and never take anything too...
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CLAUDIO MAGRIS, PAOLO GIORDANO AND GIUSEPPE CATOZZELLA IN CONVERSATION WITH...
When I present the translation of one of my books in another country, I start by holding up my Italian text and saying “This one I wrote myself,” then I show the translated volume and say “This one we...
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ANNE MILANO APPEL AND SOME OF HER AUTHORS - PART ONE
“‘My’ authors, yes, I always think of them that way. I often consider how unfair it is to be the author: I get to climb inside their heads, I know the nuances of their thinking and the way that thought...
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