Don Bartlett, Melanie Mauthner, and others on the art of translation
Don Bartlett, translator of the My Struggle series, discusses the "tension between being true to the original [work] and being readable," Melanie Mauthner divulges how she translates Scholastique Mukasonga, and others dive into the artistry behind translating a piece of foreign
Maureen Freely on translation, Istanbul and Orhan Pamuk in NYRB
Don't miss Archipelago translator Maureen Freely's beautiful essay "Seeing Istanbul Again" on the New York Review of Books' blog. Years later, when I was translating Orhan Pamuk’s memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City, I would read his passage on childhood daydreaming