Just six years after publishing her first translation, Aneesa Abbas Higgins won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho. In this conversation, Abbas Higgins talks with Samantha Schnee about coming to translation in middle age and offers
Jennifer Croft started a petition to demand translators get front-cover credit on books they translate. The petition (so far) has been signed by hundreds.
Do you know who translated your favorite foreign-language novel? Whoever did wants you to know as soon as you pick up the book, in fact. That’s why translators are demanding that book publishers credit them on the front covers of the books they translate.