“Translating the Dead” is the name of a panel I attended at the #AWP26 conference and book fair last week. [1] The very fact that this was on the agenda speaks to a greater intentionality and thoughtfulness going into translations today. Today’s sensitivity about translations is a far cry from the turn-of-the-century standards that turned Memoirs of an Arabian Princess into a no-name, somewhat rushed 1888 English translation and a completely distorted 1907 English translati
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