The new roles of translators

At another event at the literary translation center at the London Book Fair last week, experts discussed how translations reach the market and the best ways to bring foreign-language authors to publishers.

“Panel members consisted of Janklow & Nesbit literary agent Rebecca Carter, who worked as a Random House editor for 15 years, often acquiring literary fiction in translation, Kerry Glencorse, an agent with Susannah Lea Associates who is also on the PEN writers in translation committee, Stefan Tobler, translator and publisher of & Other Stories and Maureen Freely, author, translator and the new president of English PEN.” Read more here.

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