created by bethniamh
last updated August, 2026
What Am I, A Deer?
Polly Barton
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
Daniel Hahn
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series)
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
Kavita Bhanot
Translating Myself and Others
Jhumpa Lahiri
This Little Art
Kate Briggs
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
David Bellos
could add Babel to this list though it’s a little more fantasy than many of the others
I think I’m leaning non-fiction with this list but definitely a good fiction recommendation!
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