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 ...

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.

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 ...

Are you a (literary) translator, or aspiring to be one? You are warmly invited to participate in a workshop with prominent translators (Ginny Tapley Takemori & Allison Markin Powell) and Tilted Axis ...

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 ...

Effective translators must be like the texts they handle -- at once bilingual and bicultural. The meaning of a text is to be found within its cultural, historical and literary contexts. Literary ...

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 ...

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, ...