Literary translation is as difficult as writing an original, sometimes even more. When rendering these texts into another language, translating “the meaning of the words” is not enough, and even that can be challenging and ambiguous. It is essential to be aware of all the nuances and literary devices that normally appear in literary works and make it necessary to be extremely meticulous when translating them. Moreover, orthotypography cannot be overlooked, since our works will be surely published.

To translate literary texts, no matter what genre, in addition to translating, knowing how to write is essential. We just have to think about all those great writers in history who were also translators, from Cicero 2,000 years ago to Robert Graves, Boris Vian, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and even contemporary writers like Javier Marías and Haruki Murakami. For this reason, englishpanish only works with translators that have a minimum number of books published, both translations and originals.

Besides, in literary translation, it is essential to work with at least two professional proofreaders to detect and correct any inconsistency in grammar, style or orthotypography mistake, which will ensure the editorial quality of the work. If two heads are better than one, three can almost achieve microscopic perfection.

They say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. We work so that no one judges it by a poor translation.