Spencer Ruchti, the author events manager at Third Place Books in Seattle, and Justin Walls, the coeditor of translation-focused pick-of-the-month series Du Mois Monthly, have launched the Cercador ...

According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. In recent years, several independent publishers have strived to fill this ...

Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000. The gap between its ...

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job. There are as many ways of translating a ...

While translators don't always receive credit on book covers, even though translators like Croft have argued for the practice, they do on these titles, including Federico Falco's A Perfect Cemetery ...

There’s something almost otherworldly about Ann Leckie’s success. After the publication of her first book, 2013’s “Ancillary Justice,” she won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards – something ...

August is a lot of things: it’s uncomfortably hot, it’s National Panini Month and it’s somehow already time for your kids to go back to school. But August is also Women in Translation Month, a yearly ...

LULI AND THE LANGUAGE OF TEA By Andrea Wang Illustrated by Hyewon Yum A IS FOR BEE An Alphabet Book in Translation By Ellen Heck When people ask what got me started on my path to writing dictionaries, ...

To write, first and foremost, is to choose the words to tell a story, whereas to translate is to evaluate, acutely, each word an author chooses. Repetitions in particular rise instantly to the surface ...

In the publishing world, fall is for Big Books: hyped debuts, new releases by heavy hitters, major political titles. One of the three titles below, Marie NDiaye's Vengeance Is Mine, belongs ...