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In addition to being bilingual, “she has a super sensitive ear for the texts she translates, and she strives to find the right English words and the right register for each book."
Beforethelaw[1]FranzKafka[2]Translatedbyxia23Adoorkeeperstandsbeforethelaw.Amanfromthelandcomestothedoorkeeperandasksfor...
Among the other German writers whose work he rendered into English was Arno Schmidt, whose Joycean wordplay presented a daunting challenge.
Editor and translator Katy Derbyshire poses the question to ten practitioners and stresses why we need to be talking about it.