I am not an ambitious person, as it goes. I've always been of the opinion that above a certain baseline of "providing comfortably for my family" I'm content with whatever kind of work comes along. That's partly because that I've always been lucky enough to…
Continue reading...It has been a couple of months since Strange Houses, Uketsu's debut novel in Japan and second in English translation, came out in both the US and UK. I figure it's about time to address some of the particular issues translating this one, given that…
Continue reading...A lot of the talk about translation done by people who don't think all that deeply about it—even professional translators!—focuses on things like accuracy and faithfulness, but I find that tends to work around assumptions that are worth investigating. Like, when something is "accurate," we…
Continue reading...June 3rd is the official release date for the US edition. It is June 3rd in Japan, so I'll go ahead and announce it now, but your time zone might demand you wait a bit. Apparently the UK pub date has been listed as July…
Continue reading...I did a foolish thing. I not only agreed to help plan IJET-33, an international translation conference (in a reduced role, but still) during a period when I was supposed to be finishing up the manuscript for my latest novel translation, I also volunteered to…
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