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.
The Authors Guild has announced the results of its 2022 Survey of U.S. Literary Translators' Working Conditions. The survey was conducted online in October 2022 by the Guild in collaboration with the ...
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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association. Jamie ...
When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...
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 ...
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 ...
"The fight for free expression never ceases. It is always, as we know, under attack," Hall said to open the ceremony Eugene Gologursky/Getty Tamron Hall hosted the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards, ...
SKANEATELES, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian ...
It has been 20 years since Bill Murray found himself searching for the right words in the Hollywood hit, “Lost in Translation,” and Elisabeth Jaquette remembers the movie well. She liked it, too, but ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language ...
As Russian forces breached the border with Ukraine late last month, Kate Tsurkan issued an urgent call for help on social media. Tsurkan, a translator who lives in Chernivtsi, a city in western ...