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Jul 12 2017
Corinne McKay

Tips for frustrated literary translators

This post was originally published as a newsletter to my mailing list. An unusually large number of readers told me that they benefited from it, so I’m re-publishing it here while I’m on vacation. It’s book prize season, the time of year when many of us admire, or even envy, our colleagues like Tess Lewis […]

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Written by Corinne McKay · Categorized: Book translations · Tagged: book translation, book translators, literary translation, literary translators

Jun 23 2017
Corinne McKay

Babelcube: One translator’s experience

This is a guest post by Ligia Ribeiro. Ligia is Brazilian, lives in in São Paulo and is a freelance translator working from English and Spanish into Brazilian Portuguese. In this post, Ligia describes her experience working as a literary translator through Babelcube, a website that matches authors with translators, for royalties-only literary translation assignments. […]

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Written by Corinne McKay · Categorized: Guest posts, Literary translation · Tagged: Babelcube, Babelcube reviews, literary translation

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