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French teenager in trouble for translating Potter

Meanwhile, French readers are frustrated that it’s taking the official translator more than two weeks to complete a translation of the 759-page book. LINK: French teen detained over…

An Essay on Translation

I’m posting this again because, when I linked to it before, a few weeks ago, there was an error in the link (I only recently discovered that —…

Open Letter

The University of Rochester has announced a new book publishing imprint called Open Letter. The press will publish twelve books of international literature a year — I guess…

Monolingualism and Intolerance

Intolerance has many triggers and takes many forms, but it tends to boil down to in-group and out-group status. Most people favor “people like us.” (Whereas tolerance springs…

The most pompous translator of our time?

When I saw that the anchor text for a link on Ron Silliman’s blog was “a review of the most pompous translator of our time” I had a…

New World / New Words

Acouple of days ago I completed proofreading first pages of New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas, A Bilingual Anthology, the first volume in a…

New World / New Words Finally Being Published?

This project (which I did as a volunteer, to support the mission of the Center for the Art of Translation) has really been moving at a snail’s pace….