Poll: Have you ever translated an eventual best seller? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever translated an eventual best seller?".
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| | | Susanna Martoni Italy Local time: 18:27 Member (2009) Spanish to Italian + ... Heavy weight | Jun 20, 2010 |
Yes. A heavy weight for everybody's stomach. Earthquakes, seaquakes and neverending catastrophes. Not adviced (neither for readers nor for translators). By the way: Despite of the editor's opinion, I don't think it finally became a best-seller. | | | Not a best-seller, but I got royalties | Jun 20, 2010 |
I received royalties for about 5 years from a book I translated for the University of Texas Press. | | | Suzan Hamer Netherlands Local time: 18:27 English + ...
Perhaps the book I'm translating now will become one... I certainly can't put it down. | |
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Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 17:27 Russian to English + ... In memoriam | Susana Valdez Portugal Local time: 17:27 English to Portuguese + ... Not an eventual best-seller, but Bestselling Authors | Jun 20, 2010 |
I've translated into Portuguese The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu & An Offer You Can't Refuse by Jill Mansell Both bestselling authors. I'm eager to continue working on this type of projects. | | | Jeff Whittaker United States Local time: 12:27 Spanish to English + ... That is awesome. | Jun 20, 2010 |
Are you credited as the translator on the acknowledgments page/inside cover? If so, you may want to take an image of that page and insert it into the Amazon listing by pressing "Share your own images". I often read novels that have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French and I always look at the translator's name and try to find them on ProZ. It seems that most literary translators do not have a profile here.
[Edited at 2010-06-20 16:07 GMT] | | | Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 17:27 Russian to English + ... In memoriam Thanks for the suggestion, Jeff | Jun 21, 2010 |
I have acted on it & hope to see my name on that page some time soon. | |
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Like Susana I have also translated one novel by Jill Mansell (Making Your Mind Up), and also Lipstick Jungle by SATC Candace Bushell, into Swedish. Don't think either are exactely best-sellers, but childrens book Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism definitely was. Nice change from medical translations. | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Poll: Have you ever translated an eventual best seller? Trados Studio 2022 Freelance | The leading translation software used by over 270,000 translators.
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