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  Diasporic and Clan   are two volumes of short stories by the sinophone Singaporean writer Soon Ai Ling, translated, transcreated and adap...

  Owlish is the story of Professor Q, a university lecturer in the city of Nevers. He is not a happy man: his wife refuses intimacy with hi...

  What do cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast have in common? They’re all comfort foods that Alic...

  Nicky Harman peruses Goodreads for reviews of a classic Chinese novel. As a translator, I’ve always been fascinated by how readers react t...

  Nicky Harman writes: Literary translation, like writing, is traditionally a one-woman or one-man job. At most, two people might work toget...

  Rather to my surprise, I found myself at a discussion of this very question at the Literary Translation Centre, in last week's London ...

Full disclosure: I’m devoting my blog this month to a personal project, The Paper Republic Guide To Contemporary Chinese Literature. Trans...

There are famous historical precedents for translators working as a team. This is especially true in religious texts. One of the greatest pr...

I have taught many summer schools in translation, and I have run translation workshops online. But I have never, until last week, taught a...