Translation

The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.

Convenience Store Woman
The Vegetarian
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Odyssey
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Stranger
Anna Karenina
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Master and Margarita
A Man Called Ove
Salman Rushdie
“ The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. ...more ”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Ken Liu
“ Every act of communication is a miracle of translation. ”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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