For most of literary history, translators have been invisible. They appear in acknowledgements, if at all, and their labour is often taken for granted. Yet in recent years something unusual has happened: translators have stepped into fiction itself, not only…
When Franz Kafka’s The Stoker appeared in Czech in 1920, the translation marked a quiet milestone: it was the first time his work crossed into another language. The translator was Milena Jesenská, a young journalist from Prague whose life would…
The National Book Foundation’s 2025 longlist for Translated Literature spans nine languages and ten countries, offering readers an extraordinary glimpse into the global imagination. It includes works originally written in Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and, for…