I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find.
Idra NoveyI've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.
Idra NoveyIt would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?
Idra NoveyWhat is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.
Idra Novey