This World Book Day, we discuss the oft-overlooked art of literary translation and the future of the practice with translator ...

Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other ...

The field of translation within global literary dynamics encompasses the multifaceted processes through which literature traverses linguistic and cultural borders. Recent scholarship has examined not ...

We underestimate at our peril just how good computers have already become, and how quickly they are progressing, but they still have a long way to go, so now is a good juncture to survey the scene.

The Times convened five notable translators who bring literature from other languages into English, and asked them about the joys and challenges of the job. There are as many ways of translating a ...

Less than 1% of all translated literature published in the U.S. during the past 10 years came from a South Asian language, even though the region is home to more than 20% of the world’s population. To ...

SKANEATELES, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian ...

Translating literature, from Dostoevsky to Banu Mushtaq, demands more than linguistic accuracy—it requires a writer’s instinct, cultural awareness, and radical sensitivity to language. Recent ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...