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Translation novels:

• Translating novels is just as tricky as translating poetry - and can often be more so. Best-selling author Patrick Rothfuss explains that it is not just the length of the text involved which is problematic: Names are important things.- Need to stick to the original text without translating it verbatim, without transposing wordsexactly policymakers.This is because real names tend to accrete and evolve over time.

Translation novels:

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  Translating novels is just as tricky as translating poetry – and can often be more so. Best-selling author ​Patrick Rothfuss​ explains that it is not just the length of the text involved which is problematic: Names are important things. And real names, names that actually exist in the world, don’t make a lot of literal sense. This is because real names tend to accrete and evolve over time.

  
  


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  Need to stick to the original text without translating it verbatim, without transposing wordsexactly policymakers.

  
  


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  A further complication is the assumed knowledge of the reader. References to customs, practices and traditions may be easy to understand when reading a novel in one’s own language, but how does a translator deliver that level of built-in knowledge to a reader in another country who may be unfamiliar with the original language’s cultural quirks?