21 June 2012

What to translate

2. What do you think should be the most important criteria in choosing books to translate into English?

Maybe that it be astonishing and that nobody is or could be writing anything like it in English. Sorry, that makes two.

From a short interview with translator Katherine Silver at Publishing the World.

4 comments:

  1. Some translator! She doesn't realize that criteria is the plural of criterion.

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  2. Séamus, you're eagle-eyed! Perhaps Silver translated the "sense" of the question.

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  3. regardless of errors still great question & answer.

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  4. Indeed. Though the second criterion requires one to have read fairly widely in English.

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