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Translators as characters in fiction books

Robert Tucker
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Just remembered this one ... Apr 6, 2008

"Transgressions" by Sarah Dunant

Thriller in which the main character is translating a Czech novel into English.


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Jessie Li
China
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non May 16, 2008

seems i know none of that fiction, so pity

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Robert Tucker
United Kingdom
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Yet more Jan 2, 2009

From the weekend Financial Times:

"Stupeur et tremblements" (Eng. title: "Fear and Trembling") by Amélie Nothomb

Also there is a list on Biblit:

http://www.biblit.it/traduttori%20nei%20libri.htm

One of the main characters in:

"The Year of Her Life" by Liz Ryan gets quite "taken" by a translator, though he is not quite a main character himself.


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