Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself. An American married to a rising paleography scholar at Oxford, Lowe-Porter was raising three daughters and helping make ends meet with occasional translation work
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Salman Rushdie Attack Recalls Murder of His Japanese Translator
TOKYO — The attack on Salman Rushdie in western New York State on Friday prompted renewed interest in previous attacks on people connected to his 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” including its Japanese translator, who was killed in 1991. The translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death at age 44
Richard Howard, Acclaimed Poet and Translator, Dies at 92
a villa full of idols. Mr. Howard’s remaining assortment of poems, in 2014, drew on his personal early training.Credit score…Turtle Level Press In “A Progressive Training” (2014), his final printed assortment, Mr. Howard imagined, in verse kind, letters written collectively by a category of sixth graders in Sandusky, Ohio, circa