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    Translation

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    Interview with a literary agent: Sebastian Ritscher of Mohrbooks

    The annual cycle of international book fairs has been disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak, but the business of publishing is continuing, as we all look…

    Sebastian Ritscher March 16, 2020
    Small independent presses

    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…

    Norah Myers May 15, 2018

    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…

    Sue Burke November 8, 2017

    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…

    David Costello September 16, 2017

    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…

    Lisa Davis July 17, 2017

    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),…

    Kathe Lieber June 26, 2017
    2017 in review

    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.

    Jaclyn Swope May 25, 2017

    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…

    Mara Livingstone-McPhail April 5, 2017
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    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.…

    Luisa Olmedo Cortés January 5, 2017
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    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…

    Luisa Olmedo Cortés December 12, 2016
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    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…

    Luisa Olmedo Cortés December 2, 2016

    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…

    Jonathan Ruppin July 19, 2016
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    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…

    Tom Chalmers February 6, 2016
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    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…

    Tom Chalmers February 16, 2015
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    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…

    TomChalmers September 10, 2014
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