translators on translation: portraits of the art

This is a book in pursuit of translators’ philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula Le Guin and Langston Hughes, Translators on Translation coaxes each subject’s reflections on their art, their view of translation, and how they carry out their form of translation.

Kelly Washbourne is Professor of Spanish at Kent State University (Ohio, United States). His publications include Nobel Laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias’ Legends of Guatemala, and The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation. He recently translated El Criticón (1651-1657), an allegorical novel by Baltasar Gracián.