1. Did you know? The hashtag #namethetranslator first appeared in Dec. 2013 in a tweet on @TranslatedWorld—with the aim of increasing awareness and to try to make it standard practice to acknowledge the translator. HT @HelenWangLondon 
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks 2. People use the hashtag #namethetranslator to raise awareness in different ways—usually in appreciation, or to mark an omission. There is no manifesto. This month I’m tweeting what #namethetranslator means to me.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks 3. I #namethetranslator because literary translators work as independent creative contractors, who need the credit to build and sustain freelance careers. ihatov.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/3-c… ihatov.wordpress.com/about/credit-t…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks 4. I #namethetranslator because literary translation is an artistic act. Nine different translators will produce nine different renderings of a work. ihatov.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/one…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks 5. I #namethetranslator because literary translation involves infinite interpretative decisions. hbook.com/?detailStory=e…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks 6. I #namethetranslator because literary translation requires virtuosic writing, so that a work stands next to works authored in English and demands to be read.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress 7. I #namethetranslator because literary translation involves translating unwritten cultural context. The day software can do this, will be the day software can write the books.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress 8. I #namethetranslator because literary translation = collaboration with an #ownvoices author and requires intimate knowledge of two languages and cultures, borne of intensive, extensive, lifelong engagement with them. 41:17-48:21 register.gotowebinar.com/register/71478… (free archived webinar)
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark 9. I #namethetranslator because the literary translator does far more than translate: discover, appraise, introduce, edit, promote.
“What Can a Translator Do for You?” by @danielhahn02 for @Booktrust: booktrust.org.uk/globalassets/r…
“What Can a Translator Do for You?” by @danielhahn02 for @Booktrust: booktrust.org.uk/globalassets/r…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust 10. I #namethetranslator because readers want to know! (Yes, translators have fans!) Naming the translator on the cover and in the metadata helps fans to identify a translator’s work when unable to page through it, as when buying books online or shrink-wrapped (click to see).
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 *Image enhancement by eight-year-old sidekick.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur 12. I #namethetranslator because in a divisive time, translators build bridges. (Series at @translatewomen—scroll and scroll.) blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwom…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen 13. I #namethetranslator because it is industry best practice. @PENamerica pen.org/a-model-contra…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica 14. I #namethetranslator(s) of #kidlit, including the #picturebook, because children’s literature is literature; short literature is literature; and literary translators are literary translators. Publishers, if you don't know who translated a #pb you acquired, please investigate.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica 15. I #namethetranslator because publishers, if you cannot read the Language(s) Other Than English #LOTE original, the translator of the #picturebook was not you.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica 16. I #namethetranslator because even in a case where a #picturebook was truly translated “in-house,” the crediting normalizes and affirms crediting of literary translators. (Psst: “in-house” has too often been code for, “we worked from an unnamed sample translator's English.")
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica 17. I #namethetranslator because this marks a book as not anglophone in origin, thereby helping to make visible a publishing industry's anglocentrism. #kidlit #worldkidlit HT @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk cynthialeitichsmith.com/2019/09/guest-…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk 18. I #namethetranslator and #namethesourcelanguage because it helps readers and gatekeepers check at a glance whether a collection is internationally diverse. (Click pic.) #VisibilityMatters HT @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @HelenWangLondon
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel 19. I #namethetranslator to #resist xenophobia. "One reason why the translator’s name should be visible is...we’re still having to change the imbalance in attitude towards books....published in translation. People have a kind of allergy to things foreign." blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwom…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel Quotation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator from Polish of (among others) Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk.
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel 20. I #namethetranslator because while world literature has recently garnered some attention in the Anglosphere, there’s still a long way to go. Marilyn Booth, 7:25-7:52 edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel 21. I #namethetranslator because I want to affirm a book’s origin in a Language Other Than English #LOTE. Linguistic diversity matters. #IMLD2020 #IMLD publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel 22. I #namethetranslator because the sale of a book in translation benefits BOTH the author, who can keep writing in a Language Other Than English #LOTE, and the translator, who can keep connecting LOTE literature with new markets. #IMLD2020 #IMLD
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel 23. I #namethetranslator because >E literary translators stretch and grow the English language. #poetry @EmKateRam at 40:00 and @nikolisanastasi at 41:00
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@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi 24. I #namethetranslator(s) because if the authors are the playwrights, the translators are the actors. 🎭link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi 25. I #namethetranslator(s) because if authors are composers, translators are classical musicians. 🎶
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi 26. I #namethetranslator(s) because if authors are songwriters, translators are rock stars. 🎸
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi 27. I #namethetranslator(s) because literary #translation is, for much of the journey, a labor of love. google.com/search?ei=sZU3…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi 28. I #namethetranslator and #namethesourcelanguage because, like @margarita Engle, I “hope that . . . we can all read global literature from thousands of languages. There is no other way to really understand each other.” cynthialeitichsmith.com/2019/10/surviv…
@TranslatedWorld @HelenWangLondon @routledgebooks @DelacortePress @TEAatCU @5Colleges @LindaSuePark @danielhahn02 @Booktrust @DoubledayUK @Philipgabriel1 @AntonHur @translatewomen @PENamerica @CynLeitichSmith @gayleenrabakukk @BankStreetBooks @lawrenceschimel @EmKateRam @nikolisanastasi @margarita 29. I #namethetranslator because . . . hooray for translators! To every translator out there today laboring in the shadows, preparing #worldkidlit or #worldlit for a market still learning to appreciate you: I applaud you! #scbwi @SCBWIJapan @kyotojournal ihatov.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/kyo…
