novel into english the british born linguist is one of the most prominent translators of contemporary german literature she's written books about it and teaches literary translation what drives her. books that make you feel very deeply i love when literature can make you angry sometimes i was translating it short story. made me cry while i was translating it which is kind of manipulative but good. i like. literature that you can hear the sound of it when you when you're reading it you can hear the you can hear. the press all the where where the writers are really using the language to do something to us. for more than two decades now katie darbyshire only translates books that really move her. such as an opera stall off a novel by z.