A Practical Guide for Translators (2025)

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Translators Writing, Writing Translators

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is professor emerita of Spanish and translation studies at Kent State University. The inspiration for this book, she is a prizewinning translator of the works of Octavio Armand, Severo Sarduy, Rosa Chacel, and María Zambrano and a leading scholar in translation studies who has published widely on topics ranging from the poetry of Ramón del Valle-Inclán to issues of gender, ethics, and the pedagogy of translation. She was instrumental in giving voice to translators in the United States through a number of interviews and many collaborative works. She has had and continues to have a profound influence on many students, scholars, writers, and translators, several of them contributors to this volume in her honor. Her work displays a rare combination of extreme precision, erudition, daring, and generosity. She is currently the book review editor for Translation and Interpreting Studies and a member of the advisory board of The Translator, TTR, and the book series Literatures, Cultures, Translation (Bloomsbury). She is also translating work by Octavio Armand and Rosa Chacel and editing a volume in honor of another formidable translator, the late Helen Lane.

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Translators revising translators: a fruitful alliance

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This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. We use multiple sources of data collection: 16 in-depth interviews with participants (translators, revisers, a proofreader, the cover designer); participants' reflective diaries; fieldnotes from our participant observation in the form of reflective diaries; e-mail correspondence between the participants; translation drafts; and drafts of the paratexts. This article describes the workflow and provides an overview of the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh!. The article pays special attention to the negotiation of decisions and the interactions between the actors. The conclusions show that translators appreciate a detailed revision and are willing to take part in the final decision making. The detailed documentation of the process shows that the boundaries between the various revision stages are blurred and that the revision of style and language permeates the whole process.

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Translating for the authorities: the role of the translator

Catherine Way

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Translators are increasingly seen as expert intercultural communicators (Obenaus, 1995), the question is how can we improve the perception of the role of the translator in order to achieve a balance which is acceptable to all of the agents intervening in social processes that require the translation of administrative documents. Translating has been seen as a secondary service, the translator as a subordinate, perhaps in the 21st century we should try to improve the perception of the role of the translator, intervening more actively in social processes involving two or more cultures and languages. If the translator is to eliminate barriers and obstacles in intercultural communication, then, we should revise some of the translation practices currently in use, vestiges of the past which have little relevance in the world we inhabit today.

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