Translation

[close] As someone who likes to travel, cook, and read, my bookshelf is a little homogeneous so I am taking the challenge to read at least one book from every country I can find. I am taking inspiration from Ann Morgan who has a blog and TED talk about this as well as a list from Book Riot. We will travel alphabetically by country and hopefully find some great voices along the way. Read what inspires you and I hope to see you on our travels.

[close] This group is for translators and authors who are interested in making good works of literature comprehensible/readable for the world. In this group, translators and authors get acquainted to work together. If you are interested in being able to publish your work in another language, feel free to join this group :). Also, if you are a translator and eager to help, you are just as welcome :).

[close] I started this group on idea that I had as a reader. I was constantly finding books in foreign languages that I am/was unable to read. I thought wouldn't it be great if I could ban together translators, authors and publishers together to possibly make English versions available to non-multilingual people? and also, books from other countries like the UK and Australia not available to those in the USA? I'm looking for translators who are dual-lingual, in their native tongue and in English. French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, all apply here. My idea is to take the original book, translate it, publish it to Smashwords or somewhere similar, see how it gains an audience to an American publisher may pick it up and publish it, possibly give it a better translation. I'm not sure how all this work, legally, but it's worth taking a shot at! If this takes off, I'd like to start a website, to collaborate with reviewers, other bloggers, authors, publishers and freelance translators. We would work on translations, take requests, communicate with authors and publishers and review said books. if we cannot translate, I'd like to at least spread the knowledge of the books in hopes that they'd picked up by a USA publisher.

[close] A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) by Lance & James Morcan. This group can also be an intersection of sorts where Deaf and hearing people can engage and learn from each other.