To ensure fidelity, an independent translator translated two of the FGDs back into Swahili.
Most of that money will go the Amazon Mechanical Turk workers who will each translate one of the book's six thousand four hundred and thirty-eight sentences three times.
"My one regret is not having Orson Welles on the cover, but we did translate one of his speeches," she says.
Before Grove acquired rights to "The Accusation," Lim, who was born in Korea and raised in Canada, read the stories in the original Korean and decided to translate four of them for her senior thesis at Princeton University.
"Young people are interested in interior decoration, so the timing is right," said Kyoko Michisita, a book translator who visited the Ginza store out of curiosity after having translated two of Ms. Stewart's columns.
The stories are translated by Ottilie Mulzet, while George Szirtes has translated two of Krasznahorkai's novels, including War and War (New Directions).
Mr. Whitney translated two of Mr. Solzhenitsyn's major books: "The First Circle" (Harper & Row, 1968), a novel of life in Stalin's prison camps; and "The Gulag Archipelago," a 660-page historical exposé of the Soviet terror system, published by Harper & Row in 1974.
They translated two of my books.
There were difficulties in translating two of the seventeen items: "My feet are more painful in the evening" (item 16) and "I get shooting pains in my feet" (item 17).
He had renounced two American translators whom he had previously extolled, Kussi and Michael Henry Heim, each of whom had translated three of his novels, to much acclaim.
