J.K. Rowling, Finland, and Translation

By Chad Post | May 31st, 2012 | Articles | 0 Comment

Jill Timbers is a translator from Finnish to English who recently posted on the ALTA listserve about a very curious situation going on in Finland w/r/t the new J.K. Rowling book. I asked her to expand on this a bit, since it’s a situation that raises all sorts of questions about translation quality, profit versus art, ...