SOUTHEND Council has employed a Polish translator to help immigrants claim benefits. The council started the trial programme because Polish is now the second most common language spoken in the town ...

Translating Wisława Szymborska’s works was like 'polishing diamonds' for me, said Piotr Kamiński, the translator of her poetry into French. We quote the translators’ opinions and recollections of the ...

Maciej Świerkocki has received the Irish Embassy’s Bernard O'Connor Award for his new translation of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and the accompanying book 'Łódź Ulissesa' ['Ulysses’ boat']. Maciej ...

For Bartnicki the task of translating Joyce's most difficult work, the 628-page novel that employs a panoply of languages to tell a story of mankind, started out as a kind of happy-go-lucky enterprise ...