News, News Highlights, Non-fiction Interview: Yilin Wang By: Yilin Wang As someone who thinks of myself primarily as a writer, I first became interested in translation three years ago when I started working on a novel inspired by the tropes of wuxia (martial arts fantasy) fiction in English. Read More

News Highlights Interview: Ali Znaidi By: Ali Znaidi Umberto Eco once pessimistically said that “translation is the art of failure”. In contrast, I say that this precious craft is the art of success because without literary translation, we are all separate dots in an ocean of failures. Read More

News Highlights Interview: K.A.Teryna

Translated by: By: K. A. Teryna Translated by: Alex Shvartsman Short stories tend to have much shorter lifespans than novels do. As such, a translation is a form of reincarnation. The end result is the same story, but also a completely different one at the same time. The first level of changes is due to the different language operating under another structure, a different set of ties binding the abstract with the specific. But there's also the second level, a more intimate level where the story surreptitiously obtains new properties after it’s been processed through the mind of the translator. Read More