Marina Warner: Translate this!, 11 October 2018
This Little Art by Kate Briggs.
Fitzcarraldo, 365 pp., £12.99, September 2017, 978 1 910695 45 6Show More Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz.
Les Fugitives, 150 pp., £10, November 2017, 978 0 9930093 3 4Show More Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti.
MIT, 168 pp., £17.99, May 2018, 978 0 262 03799 0Show More The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin.
Galileo, 304 pp., £14.99, June 2018, 978 1 903385 67 8Show More The Work of Literary Translation by Clive Scott.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £75, June 2018, 978 1 108 42682 4Show More Show More“... when I was young to László Krasznahorkai, more recently, in the versions of George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, which read enthrallingly in English, though needless to say I have no way of knowing what the originals are like. Many celebrated translators, like Gansel, carry on adding to their linguistic crane bag: Michael Henry Heim, who worked on ...”