Reading translated fiction opens a window on another world, allowing us to travel across countries and through history.
Fiammetta Rocco, literary director of the International Booker Prize, said: “What we as native English readers get, most of all, from reading in translation is illumination, richness and a strong sense of surprise. Of the discovery of something quite new.”..
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