{"id":2471,"date":"2014-02-20T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2014-02-19T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:29:19","slug":"name-the-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Name the Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Words Without Borders <\/a>has posted an editorial of mine. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Recently two of my Facebook friends posted links to reviews of their work that neither named nor noticed them. This would be inconceivable if my friends were authors, film or stage actors, or artists, but my friends are translators, so not being mentioned is par for the proverbial course…<\/p>\n

For reviews not to discuss or even mention the translator is so standard, in fact, that my friends felt they had to backpedal their outrage. Don Mee Choi, translator of Kim Hyesoon\u2019s All the Garbage of the World, Unite! <\/em>(Action Books), can\u2019t bring up how she was overlooked without apologizing: \u201cI despise self-centeredness, so I hope I\u2019m not being [self-centered] right now\u2026\u201d Likewise, Elizabeth Harris, translator of This is the Garden <\/em>by Giulio Mozzi (Open Letter Books), writes, \u201cIt\u2019s such a strange feeling: I\u2019ve read two reviews now that don\u2019t mention me at all and yet quote the book. Very, very strange. I am glad they like what they\u2019re reading, though. I can take some pleasure in that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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