Have you ever seen a leafless tree in the middle of Spring? What would you think if you saw one? Poor tree, it’s probably dying – this is what I would definitely find among a flush of different thoughts in my head at…
How low is your bathtub? People come into our lives with different attitudes, different world views, different goals. As a person who is ‘lucky’ to be born with overly friendly nature, I know how painful it can be to let a wrong person inside. How at times unbearable is to see…
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 it is—overconfidence. In real life…
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 of us look like a tiny dot lost in…
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 every time I was…
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 time to actually sit and spend an hour in a blissful solitude, writing. What about…
To make a written text shine you need to trust it to the hands of a knowing polisher —Editor. Exquisitely written books not just tell you a story, they speak it to you as if this very story is the echo of your own…
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, scanning it scrupulously, checking all the possible…
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 even walking blindly ahead started taking a shape of some plan. I did not have plan though, not really. I just had…
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 even though there is no way to dispel…
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 about book translation. Don’t get me…
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 ways to find a translator for your book, it…
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 the world of Indie Authors and their baby…
