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Are you interested in world literature, and works in translation? Come here for recommendations, resources, links, advice on who the best translator of a certain book/author is, or general philosophical discussions on the nature of translations, etc. For an explanation of the name of this group, listen to this talk by Ali Smith ...more
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+ Which Translation is Best?
Russian Fairy Tales
By Klowey · 3 posts · 15 views
last updated May 13, 2025 06:07AM
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
By Nate D · 41 posts · 7914 views
last updated Aug 07, 2024 02:08AM
Master and Margarita (2024)
By Vic · 1 post · 20 views
last updated Feb 20, 2024 01:59PM
Kafka
By Jimmy · 7 posts · 708 views
last updated Aug 10, 2022 02:55AM
Gogol’s Dead souls
By Tom · 2 posts · 58 views
last updated Apr 20, 2022 09:27PM
Chateaubriand’s Memoirs
By Tom · 1 post · 12 views
last updated Jan 30, 2021 09:14AM
Ovid's Metamorphoses
By Jimmy · 10 posts · 6287 views
last updated Mar 24, 2019 09:36AM
Rumi's poetry: best English translation?
By Akemi · 2 posts · 414 views
last updated Mar 09, 2019 09:07AM
Poetic & Prose Edda
By Kendra · 7 posts · 1100 views
last updated Mar 07, 2019 10:20PM
Machado de Assis
By Jimmy · 5 posts · 256 views
last updated Nov 26, 2016 08:48AM
Boris Vian translations compared
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 64 views
last updated Jun 24, 2016 09:21AM
popular Chinese literature in translation
By Shirley · 13 posts · 86 views
last updated Jan 13, 2016 11:58AM
Does Swedish translate better to English than to French?
By Sylvain · 1 post · 42 views
last updated Apr 01, 2015 12:23PM
Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal
By John · 1 post · 44 views
last updated Dec 21, 2014 10:09AM
Women Without Men by Parsipur
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 28 views
last updated Aug 18, 2014 04:20AM
Dostoyevsky
By Jimmy · 15 posts · 1741 views
last updated Jan 10, 2014 12:12AM
Camus' The Stranger
By Tara · 2 posts · 893 views
last updated Nov 04, 2013 01:20PM
Heinrich Von Kleist
By Jimmy · 6 posts · 104 views
last updated Apr 06, 2013 06:39PM
Charles Baudelaire
By Jimmy · 5 posts · 556 views
last updated Oct 14, 2012 01:22PM
Gabriela Mistral
By Jimmy · 5 posts · 71 views
last updated Sep 13, 2012 03:57PM
Haruki Murakami
By Jimmy · 7 posts · 1394 views
last updated Aug 20, 2012 07:08PM
Proust
By Jimmy · 1 post · 65 views
last updated Aug 20, 2012 08:13AM
Dante
By Geoff · 10 posts · 373 views
last updated Jul 29, 2012 07:34PM
Robert Musil - Man Without Qualities
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 531 views
last updated Sep 21, 2011 04:49AM
Per Petterson
By Jessica · 1 post · 18 views
last updated Jul 31, 2011 10:28AM
Halldór Laxness
By Abi · 6 posts · 148 views
last updated Aug 16, 2010 01:31PM
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Looking for books with translators as protagonists
By Rise · 105 posts · 564 views
last updated Dec 14, 2024 09:20PM
Basho's haiku translated into English
By Akemi · 1 post · 19 views
last updated Jun 24, 2016 09:29AM
Book about Japanese book
By Yuuki · 1 post · 17 views
last updated Feb 03, 2016 08:49AM
translation
By Fatemeh · 1 post · 12 views
last updated Jan 09, 2016 11:45AM
Korean Literature
By Greg · 2 posts · 39 views
last updated Nov 10, 2015 07:50PM
Favorites Translations You Read This Year
By Nathanimal · 23 posts · 122 views
last updated Jun 11, 2014 07:26AM
Dick Davis - Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
By Greg · 3 posts · 16 views
last updated Jan 02, 2014 11:38AM
Hermann Broch
By Bryn · 7 posts · 78 views
last updated Nov 04, 2013 01:27PM
Mary Barnard's translations of Sappho
By Jenna · 2 posts · 17 views
last updated Nov 04, 2013 01:27PM
Ingeborg Bachmann
By Kris · 5 posts · 52 views
last updated Oct 15, 2013 06:19AM
Translation 'telephone' game
By Jimmy · 1 post · 28 views
last updated Aug 15, 2013 07:43AM
Favourite translations listed in The Guardian
By Ben · 4 posts · 37 views
last updated Apr 06, 2013 06:30PM
Guillaume Apollinaire
By Jenna · 2 posts · 45 views
last updated Mar 14, 2013 07:19AM
Gérard de Villiers
By L · 1 post · 11 views
last updated Feb 03, 2013 07:51PM
Favorite translators
By Rise · 10 posts · 70 views
last updated Dec 23, 2012 09:22AM
Vladimir Nabokov
By Kris · 2 posts · 35 views
last updated Aug 20, 2012 11:14AM
The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza
By Rise · 11 posts · 69 views
last updated Mar 29, 2012 09:45AM
Wisława Szymborska
By Rise · 4 posts · 97 views
last updated Feb 02, 2012 04:02PM
Susan Sontag's list
By Jessica · 9 posts · 532 views
last updated Dec 06, 2011 11:52AM
Why I Read Literature
By Malcolm · 1 post · 30 views
last updated Nov 20, 2011 10:34PM
Robert Walser
By Jimmy · 7 posts · 39 views
last updated Sep 21, 2011 04:53AM
Catullus - free eBook offer
By Scott · 4 posts · 17 views
last updated Sep 17, 2011 11:12AM
50 outstanding translations from the last 50 years
By Jimmy · 1 post · 79 views
last updated Jun 10, 2011 12:43PM
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
By Tara · 1 post · 34 views
last updated May 29, 2011 12:04PM
language, absence, accountability, Javier Marias
By Patty · 27 posts · 51 views
last updated Jan 16, 2011 09:06AM
W.G. Sebald
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 33 views
last updated Dec 09, 2010 04:24AM
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 74 views
last updated Dec 08, 2010 03:11PM
Broken Glass Park
By Malcolm · 1 post · 16 views
last updated Oct 26, 2010 10:31PM
One Thousand and One Nights
By Malcolm · 1 post · 15 views
last updated Oct 26, 2010 12:33AM
The Tale Of Genji
By Malcolm · 1 post · 37 views
last updated Oct 25, 2010 10:57PM
Czeslaw Milosz
By Kris · 7 posts · 36 views
last updated Sep 06, 2010 03:30AM
Knut Hamsun
By Kris · 4 posts · 554 views
last updated Jul 30, 2010 02:54PM
Kawabata Yasunari
By Kris · 1 post · 20 views
last updated Jul 20, 2010 08:13PM
World Cup / World Lit
By Jimmy · 2 posts · 28 views
last updated Jul 13, 2010 04:42AM
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