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Finnish translator only gets three weeks to work on J.K. Rowling novel

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Terry Richards
Terry Richards
France
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French to English
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I don't see the problem... Jun 6, 2012

The translator will get the source on the 27th of September and the translator has 21 days to translate it. The publisher will get it back on the 48th of September!

Simples!

Oh, wait a minute...
 
Tania McConaghy
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Sweden
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Swedish to English
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related issue...EN translation of the Millenium series Jun 7, 2012

There is an interesting podcast interview of the translator of the Millenium novels, who chose to use a psedonym.
As per Ty Kendall's classification, the situation was: Treatment of translators who are translating a book that will generate a huge amount of sales.
Quote from podcast info: Murray discussed the reason why he chose to take the pseudonym Reg Keeland while translating the Trilogy, which had to do with the excessive (and in his opinion, poor) intervention made by the book’s... See more
There is an interesting podcast interview of the translator of the Millenium novels, who chose to use a psedonym.
As per Ty Kendall's classification, the situation was: Treatment of translators who are translating a book that will generate a huge amount of sales.
Quote from podcast info: Murray discussed the reason why he chose to take the pseudonym Reg Keeland while translating the Trilogy, which had to do with the excessive (and in his opinion, poor) intervention made by the book’s editor.

Here's the link to the Proz article: http://www.proz.com/translation-news/?p=40361

Here's the link to the podcast: http://www.catranslation.org/blogpost/two-voices-with-translators-steven-t-murray-and-tiina-nunnally ▲ Collapse
 
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