Chaucer’s Books will host author Suzanne Jill Levine for a book talk and signing of “Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir,” 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6 at Chaucer’s, 3321 State St., Santa Barbara. “In this ...

Apart from a select few such as Ann Goldstein—English translator of Elena Ferrante and other acclaimed Italian writers—literary translators often go unsung and unappreciated in the publishing world.

According to an oft-cited and oft-lamented statistic, a mere 3% of books published in the U.S. are works in translation. In recent years, several independent publishers have strived to fill this ...

Harlequin romance books are now using AI for translations from English to French, and all in-house translators were fired.

Earlier this week, The Times reported on the death of Michael Henry Heim, 69, one of the leading figures of the small, unseen and largely unknown circle of men and women who translate the world’s ...

Amazon announced yesterday the formation of AmazonCrossing, a new publishing imprint that will release foreign-language books translated into English, both in print and in its Kindle e-book format.

Your sneak preview of books in translation coming out in 2022, updated each season. Want to know about the best books to read and the latest news? Start here. What These Writers Learned in 2025: Jeff ...

THE LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD —Alfred McKinley Terhune—Yale ($5). In London one day in 1861 Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his great friend, Poet Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book ...

August is a lot of things: it’s uncomfortably hot, it’s National Panini Month and it’s somehow already time for your kids to go back to school. But August is also Women in Translation Month, a yearly ...

CHEROKEE - In E.B White’s “Charlotte’s Web,” a barn spider befriends a pig and saves his life by writing messages in her web. Now students at New Kituwah Academy are using a translation of White’s ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with publisher Michael Szczerban about the new full English translation of the classic Italian cookbook, The Talisaman of Happiness by Ada Boni.