Audience Quote by Sergei Lukyanenko

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

— Stephen Kinzer

Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another…

— Laila Lalami

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You don’t want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good…

— Anthea Bell

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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 only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an…

— Adam Morris

However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between…

— Rebecca L. Walkowitz

If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however…

— Olga Tokarczuk