N-gated Hacker NewsApr 21, 2025
Jennifer Lindsay waxes poetic about the "value of differences" in #translation, as if noticing them suddenly makes her a United Nations diplomat 🤔📚. Meanwhile, the Sydney Review of Books pads out the article with self-congratulatory lists and irrelevant tangents because, apparently, brevity is a lost #art 🙄✍️.
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-value-of-differences #valueofdifferences #SydneyReviewofBooks #brevitylost #oftranslation #literature #HackerNews #ngated
The Value of Differences | Sydney Review of Books

International literary prizes and book reviews are increasingly acknowledging the importance of translated work. However, as Jennifer Lindsay argues, while translators themselves are receiving acclaim, their art remains largely underappreciated.