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Confessions of a literary translator

Many moons ago I entered an undergraduate literary translation competition and committed a cardinal sin. The guilt still haunts me to this day. It is, I feel, time to confess.

I was young. I was new to the translating lark. I had limited access to texts. I very much liked the few extracts I’d read of [...]