Lessons from a Year in Translation
That number is low, but looks good next to the fact that only about 3% of all the books published in the US are translations, a number that grows even smaller if you focus on literary fiction (roughly 0.7%).
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Compensation and Nuance: An Interview with Michele Hutchison
Graham Oliver: Tell me about that Tzum Prize. Did that add some weight when translating? Did you seek out those sentences first, or did you try to keep yourself unaware of which sentences they were? Michele Hutchison: Yes, I did worry about those sentences and to be honest, I think other sentences in the translation…