Literature: How Is It Translated?

Literature: How Is It Translated?

The best translators are bilingual—they are most capable of understanding and rendering complex language structures. The absence of creative translators has led to a decline in the quality of translations—and, in some cases, the loss of the very elements that made the original work unique. Souad Khalil | Libya Approaching the subject of literary translation compels us to begin by asking: What is literature? According to the Intermediate Arabic …