International book thread
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Aug 2023
12:07pm, 15 Aug 2023
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LindsD
Any of those translated DazTheSlug?
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Aug 2023
12:15pm, 15 Aug 2023
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DazTheSlug
I only read English!
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Aug 2023
1:18pm, 15 Aug 2023
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LindsD
Exactly. Can you please name the translator? They weren't all originally written in English.
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Aug 2023
2:03pm, 15 Aug 2023
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Hanneke
Question: when I list books I have read untranslated, obvs I don't mention a translator but for example: Italy: Italo Calvino, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore. Translated as: If on a Winter's night a traveller. If I happen to know it has been translated? |
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Aug 2023
2:07pm, 15 Aug 2023
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Hanneke
That makes it easier for you to find... I rate that ^^^ highly. Calvino will feature much, as I wrote my thesis on him. I am currently sat outside my workshop which holds Italian, translated into English, some Dutch and all English lit so I may head in and give you a few. I also have things translated into Dutch, not English, like some Russians. |
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Aug 2023
2:08pm, 15 Aug 2023
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Hanneke
Also: in a previous life I was a translator so, especially in literature, where you almost re-write in conflab with the author, the translator is seriously important 
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Aug 2023
2:10pm, 15 Aug 2023
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Hanneke
In the house it is heaving with Dutch and there is also French, German and Spanish. I shall avoid English, even though it is foreign gobbledegook but that is not what this thread is about.
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Aug 2023
2:25pm, 15 Aug 2023
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LindsD
With the translator's name please Hanneke. Thank you.
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Aug 2023
5:56pm, 15 Aug 2023
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Hanneke
Ah but I don't have actual translations? So I may know the title of an English translation but not the translator. And I really do not have the wherewithall to research all of that!
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Aug 2023
6:00pm, 15 Aug 2023
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LindsD
Then don't put the English title, please, if you are not prepared to do the 20s of work to find out who translated the book. As a former translator, surely you understand the importance of this. societyofauthors.org |
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