How do you learn the mastery of literary translation? By translating.

The more you translate, the better you get. But there is a side effect, and I'm just going to call it what i...

Have you ever met a small person? I’m not talking about size, even though for some size is what really matters. I’m talking about emotional aspect of human presence that makes some...

For years, I was holding any thoughts of becoming a Literary Translator at bay, mainly, because as a writer, I did not want to do anything else but write. But life has its own ways with us and...

Writers write, right?!

But what about other things, we, writers, have to deal with daily. Starting with a very primitive task as to find in the load of these mundane responsibilities...

To make a written text shine you need to trust it to the hands of a knowing polisher

—Editor.

Exquisitely written bo...

As I stepped in this multifaceted world of translation, the only question that kept me awake at night was ‘If my translation is CORRECT?’ Fidgeting over every word, s...

I have too many flaws to live a passive life if such kind of life can be called a living.

All goes according to the plan!

I repeated this phrase so many times that...

I remember good days like a vague outline of the bridge which I enter on the days, dark like night sky.

It affects my writing. It affects me. It affects people, I care about. And eve...

We are living in times when everything has a price, but this price is not always reasonable.

Who would not want to save some money if there is a chance to? Especially when we talk ab...

Good translator is not a unicorn. Surely if you know where to look, you will find plenty.

The most common way – Translation Agencies. But even though it is one of the easiest w...

There is only one way to turn one book into many, and it is to translate.

Yet, the amount of books that never get a chance to be translated is enormous. It is even more so in th...

Everyone has a view of what happiness is. Some manage to find happiness in mundane things, like taking a stroll outside in the morning; others search for happiness beyond things that can be to...

"A short story is not a sailing ship to take you far in the ocean but a boat to transport you fast to the other side."

Honestly, I had not much of interest in shor...