It's that time of year when NPR issues its collection of our favorite books of the year. And every time we do, the number of translated books on the list reminds us that there's a whole world of ...

The shortlists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Awards were announced Tuesday at Three Percent, the website of the program in international literature at the University of Rochester in New York. Ten ...

The Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) is a project aimed at promoting international literature and translations in libraries. “Our goal is to raise the visibility of books beyond the ...

After walking into Herter Hall’s Translation Annex, you are greeted by a small metal book cart, sidelined in between the two double doors and filled to the brim with translated novels, short stories ...

Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000. The gap between its ...

For reasons we have yet to discover, English speakers just don't read translated books, which make up only two or three percent of the titles published each year. Books in translation by women writers ...

As someone who enjoys reading and discussing Japanese literature, I have been pleasantly surprised by the growing number of translated Japanese books that have come out in the U.S. in recent years.