Category Archives: Stieg Larsson
Is this the new ‘age of translation’?
This year has seen literary translation hit new prominence on the news and feature pages. Earlier this week the BBC marked the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, noting how its turns of phrase have permeated everyday English: The Sun says Aston Villa “refused to give up the ghost”. Wendy Richard calls her EastEnders [...]
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Does foreign language have a place in translating literature?
It sounds a mad question, but “Does foreign language have a place in translating literature?” Put differently, when translating literature, how many words should be left in the original language? Should “foreign” words in English-language texts convey a sense of a culture, or be used as a last resort for the “untranslatable”? These questions are [...]
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Translator behind Swedish ‘Dragon Tattoo’ revealed
Along with much of the rest of the English speaking world, the WorldAccent office has not been immune to the lure of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. For the uninitiated, crime novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was a massive hit last year. The second in the series “The Girl Who Played With [...]
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Translated literature for the new year