Translation - the book

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Translation - the book

Post by banjoist123 » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:01 pm

I would like to hear a discussion of the English translation of this novel. Can any native Swedish speakers who've read the book in both Swedish and English comment on what sort of job Ebba Segerberg did? The English reads beautifully.
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Re: Translation - the book

Post by a_contemplative_life » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:00 am

I am not Swedish so I can't help directly, but there are a lot of threads sprinkled around the forum that touch on translation issues...

http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/for ... mit=Search
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