A translator does not transcribe a text, he argues, nor do they rewrite it
FOR A long time, translators had a hard time of it. They were underpaid and under-recognised by the literary establishment, rarely mentioned in reviews of the titles they worked on. But as foreign fiction has gained popularity—according to Nielsen BookScan, a data provider, Britons spent £20.7m on it in 2018, up from £16.9m in 2014—so too has the profile of translators increased.
magazine, whose work on “La Resta” , Alia Trabucco Zerán’s novel, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize this year. Daniel Hahn, a translator of Portuguese, Spanish and French, is another prominent figure. His translation of Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa’s “A General Theory of Oblivion” was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2016 and won the International Dublin Award.
Yet the question of how much a translator “writes” the novel is a loaded one. Deborah Smith’s translation of Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, but several journalists and academics criticised Ms Smith for what they saw as divergences from the original Korean .
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