Poll: Have you ever translated an eventual best seller? Лице кое објавува дискусија: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever translated an eventual best seller?".
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| Heavy weight | Jun 20, 2010 |
Yes.
A heavy weight for everybody's stomach.
Earthquakes, seaquakes and neverending catastrophes.
Not adviced (neither for readers nor for translators).
By the way:
Despite of the editor's opinion, I don't think it finally became a best-seller.
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X) 
Соединети Американски Држави
Local time: 08:28
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| Not a best-seller, but I got royalties | Jun 20, 2010 |
I received royalties for about 5 years from a book I translated for the University of Texas Press.
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Perhaps the book I'm translating now will become one... I certainly can't put it down.
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Jack Doughty
Обединето Кралство
Local time: 16:28
руски на англиски
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Во сеќавање на |
Susana Valdez
Португалија
Local time: 16:28
англиски на португалски
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| Not an eventual best-seller, but Bestselling Authors | Jun 20, 2010 |
I've translated into Portuguese
The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu
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An Offer You Can't Refuse by Jill Mansell
Both bestselling authors. I'm eager to continue working on this type of projects.
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| That is awesome. | Jun 20, 2010 |
Are you credited as the translator on the acknowledgments page/inside cover? If so, you may want to take an image of that page and insert it into the Amazon listing by pressing "Share your own images".
I often read novels that have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French and I always look at the translator's name and try to find them on ProZ. It seems that most literary translators do not have a profile here.
[Edited at 2010-06-20 16:07 GMT]
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Jack Doughty
Обединето Кралство
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Во сеќавање на | Thanks for the suggestion, Jeff | Jun 21, 2010 |
I have acted on it & hope to see my name on that page some time soon.
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Like Susana I have also translated one novel by Jill Mansell (Making Your Mind Up), and also Lipstick Jungle by SATC Candace Bushell, into Swedish.
Don't think either are exactely best-sellers, but childrens book Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism definitely was.
Nice change from medical translations.
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