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“This book was made possible by the letter “ø.” Also the letter “æ.” The first time I saw them, I fell in love and…

— Jessica Day George

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thank you for buying this Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook.   To”

— Thomas L. Friedman

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

— Park Chan-wook

This book was made possible by the letter “ø.

— Jessica Day George

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle,…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

— Roald Dahl

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside…

— Cassandra Clare