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Diversity, cultural entrepreneurship and the creative translation toolbox. Talk by Dr. Chantal Wright, Co-head of the IUED Institute of Translation and Interpreting

The various paintings that depict Bible translator Saint Jerome inform the clichéd image of the literary translator as weltfremd: with no bills to pay, no deadlines to meet, no clients to satisfy, Jerome labours away by candlelight in his unheated room, pleasing only himself and his God. The realities of the modern literary translator and the preoccupations of Literary Translation Studies are far from this image. Today literary translators self-describe as cultural entrepreneurs and activists; they are as busy off the page as they are on it.

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