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Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

https://lithub.com/writer-resistance-fighter-and-kafkas-first-translator-milena-jesenska-forgotten-no-more/

Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735

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Milena Jesenská (1896 - 1944) - Czech journalist, writer and translator.

Milena Jesenská appears as a poised young woman with strong, well-defined features. Her face is oval with expressive dark eyes, a straight nose, and full lips. She often wears her dark hair in a short, modern bob. She is dressed quite simply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1#/media/File:Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1.jpg

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Translation and Taste

Learning how to have good taste means learning to translate.

By Blake Smith

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/translation-and-taste

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Portrait of Hannah Arendt in 1924.

Unknown author - Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth Yale University Press Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World ISBN: 978-0-300-10588-9.

Hannah is facing slightly toward the camera, but her gaze is a bit off to one side—not looking straight into the lens but very near it.

Her expression is serious, thoughtful—there is a quiet intensity in her eyes. She does not appear to smile; there's a sense of introspection.

Her dress is modest, formal: a dark jacket or dress, high neckline; possibly a blouse underneath with a collar or some delicate detail but subdued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#/media/File:Hannah_Arendt_1924.jpg

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@bookstodon #Writing #Publishing #Translators #PSA

Some publishers are delegating translation of your work to GenAI/LLMs, which a) puts humans translators out of work, and b) ensures you'll lose readers, because GenAI/LLM translation is basically Google translate: no context word for word translation.

So you need to contact your publisher about this AND make sure you future contract include a clause demanding human translators for the FULL job--not just "fixing" slop.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/03/how-translation-works-book-title-edition/