Small independent presses: interview with Cécile Menon
Tomorrow evening (Wednesday 16th May), a group of BookMachine-goers will be joining the TLS in London for an event which focuses on small, independent presses…
Translation
Translating Poetry: A thorny problem
Here Sue Burke writes about the problems of translating poetry, drawing examples from some of her own haiku. Sue is a widely-published American writer and translator, specialising in poetry and…
Translation tips for beginners
Have you ever heard the term “lost in translation”? What this commonly used phrase essentially means is that there aren’t specific words to describe the…
Why we should be publishing more children’s books in translation
Lisa Davis is the Book Purchasing Manager at BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity that gifts books to over two million children, and works on the…
What makes a good translator?
You’re in search of a translator – someone utterly reliable, preferably with a small spark of genius, to work on a manuscript (fiction or non-fiction),…
Translated fiction in the UK: The stats
Ahead of our next event, ‘The Future of Literature in Translation‘, Nielsen BookScan’s Jaclyn Swope shares the data we need to know about translated titles.
Writing for international audiences
Writing has a huge potential audience now as we have many ways to access the written word. If not done well, though, writing for a…
10 translating tips for beginners
Translating is not just what I do, it is also my passion. Deciphering a message and encoding it into another language is fun and exciting.…
The adaptation of books
One of the best experiences I get whilst doing the Translating the World Project is the little surprises that appear along the way. That’s the…
On translation techniques or impossible translations
One of my favourite things to check on the internet are the so-called “untranslatable words” (or expressions) from different languages, where you can find many…
Translated literature: Is the buzz to be believed?
Jonathan Ruppin is Literary Director at digital start-up Orson & Co and the founder of the English PEN Translated Literature Book Club. He was a…
Getting found in translation
In 2015 there was a much needed push for works in translation. In October Amazon announced it was making a $10m (£6.5m) investment in AmazonCrossing…
Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction [Discussion]
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. Before Christmas I wrote about some of the issues surrounding books in…
Finding gold in the backlist
Many will know I have an unashamed love for Haruki Murakami. So when I heard that his debut work, which is almost impossible to find…
Authors Need to Know Their Rights
When it comes to working in the rights and licensing field it’s not uncommon to be bombarded with questions, especially from indie and self-published authors.…