interview published in the newspaper "El País" on June 6, 2009 under the title "The translators speak out." To read this interview from the source, click here: www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/traductores/levantan/voz/elpepicul/20090606elpepicul_1/Tes
(from left to right, José Luis López Muñoz,
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ed Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Miguel Sáenz)
ed Teresa Gallego Urrutia and Miguel Sáenz) Translators do not stop. In autumn to be ready in Translation White Paper, on Monday held at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid Europe symposium Translate and tomorrow at 11.00 will take place in the conference book fair With no translation Pyrenees. To reflect on his work, THE COUNTRY met Maria Teresa Gallego Urrutia (Madrid, 1943), José Luis López Muñoz (Madrid, 1934) and Miguel Sáenz (Larache, 1932) at the home of the latter. All three have in their curriculum the National Translation Award. While we thank the host read authors such as Günter Grass, Thomas Bernhard or Salman Rushdie, López Muñoz owed versions of Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald or Joyce Carol Oates. Meanwhile, Gallego has dealt with Gide, Jonathan Littell and Modiano. Vice President of OIL, the translation department of the association of writers, she's the leading figures "35% of what is in a English bookstore es traducido". La web de ACEtt (www.acett.org) contiene una tabla de tarifas mínimas recomendadas que van de los 35 euros por cada 1.000 palabras para el inglés y las lenguas romances a los 60 para las orientales. Unos mínimos que no siempre se cumplen.
Pregunta. ¿Se puede vivir de la traducción literaria?
Miguel Sáenz. El 90% de los traductores tiene otro oficio, algo que les obliga a una doble jornada. La traducción literaria no es rentable. Lo bueno es que puedes elegir lo que traduces.
José Luis López Muñoz . Un traductor es como un actor. Cuando tiene prestigio puede rechazar los papeles que no le gustan, pero eso no le guarantees interpret what he wants because as anyone has it. MS
Discovering something new is one of the perks of this job. When I received the manuscript of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie was a nobody. A different case is The Neverending Story. It is a masterpiece, but had four young children and I wanted. It is the only book that has given me money. Exceptions, the editors feel a shocking disregard by the translator.
Maria Teresa Gallego. Studies have shown that the cost is minimal well-paid by a translation in the overall price of a book. I mean, not repay evil to save, but because despise us. MS
A majority do not care about the translation. They want them out cheap. And the prices are falling. JLLM
The attitude change when readers complain about the quality of translations. Here everybody complains but nobody protests.
P. But you are already established ... MTG
After 40 years of occupation, I am a privileged give me good books, I would not touch a coma, I respect the contract ... What I want is that this is the standard for all translators.
P. Despite the conditions, the level of translation in Spain is high. JLLM
You translate it wants to communicate something you have read and liked him. MS
There I have a record of the International Law Commission, which is easier to translate than a novel. For each page I pay six times more. If a month I can earn in a year ... When an order comes to you as well and refuse to translate Günter Grass is you're crazy.
P. What would be the ideal working conditions? MTG
Enforce the Intellectual Property Law. Let there be no translations without a contract and no contracts skip the law. MS
... publishers to respect such contracts. Because the settlements are laughable. MTG
We need a government agency that controls it. Not everything has to go through the court.
P. Is the law good? MS
Yes, but it fails. And you can not spend all day litigating with multinationals. There are editors who stay with subsidies that should go to the translator. JLLM
And when a publisher sells your translation, for example, the Readers' Circle, makes for a price you do not know, and keeps half.
P. What percentage of the price of a book is for the translator? JLLM
Typically 1%. In the authors free of duty between 3% and 5%. MTG
However, the low esteem usually occurs in things that do not cost money. Many times the book reviews the information omitted from the translator, or say that this book has been "translated" the editorial equis. I will not say to the translator on the cover of the book, which made only a few. They say it spoils the design. MS
We will call vain. Most do not put either on the web.
MTG is not vanity, is a labor issue. The publisher will pay me decently if you know that I will benefit, I'm an added value, if you know a good translation will give three cents more. And for that the reader needs to know that I exist. Some people think that all books are written in English directly. MS
In Spain 40 years ago nobody knew who had done a movie. Then came the French with the auteur. Now the audience knows that the directors have been named. Maybe one day pass that to the translators.
Pregunta. ¿Se puede vivir de la traducción literaria?
Miguel Sáenz. El 90% de los traductores tiene otro oficio, algo que les obliga a una doble jornada. La traducción literaria no es rentable. Lo bueno es que puedes elegir lo que traduces.
José Luis López Muñoz . Un traductor es como un actor. Cuando tiene prestigio puede rechazar los papeles que no le gustan, pero eso no le guarantees interpret what he wants because as anyone has it. MS
Discovering something new is one of the perks of this job. When I received the manuscript of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie was a nobody. A different case is The Neverending Story. It is a masterpiece, but had four young children and I wanted. It is the only book that has given me money. Exceptions, the editors feel a shocking disregard by the translator.
Maria Teresa Gallego. Studies have shown that the cost is minimal well-paid by a translation in the overall price of a book. I mean, not repay evil to save, but because despise us. MS
A majority do not care about the translation. They want them out cheap. And the prices are falling. JLLM
The attitude change when readers complain about the quality of translations. Here everybody complains but nobody protests.
P. But you are already established ... MTG
After 40 years of occupation, I am a privileged give me good books, I would not touch a coma, I respect the contract ... What I want is that this is the standard for all translators.
P. Despite the conditions, the level of translation in Spain is high. JLLM
You translate it wants to communicate something you have read and liked him. MS
There I have a record of the International Law Commission, which is easier to translate than a novel. For each page I pay six times more. If a month I can earn in a year ... When an order comes to you as well and refuse to translate Günter Grass is you're crazy.
P. What would be the ideal working conditions? MTG
Enforce the Intellectual Property Law. Let there be no translations without a contract and no contracts skip the law. MS
... publishers to respect such contracts. Because the settlements are laughable. MTG
We need a government agency that controls it. Not everything has to go through the court.
P. Is the law good? MS
Yes, but it fails. And you can not spend all day litigating with multinationals. There are editors who stay with subsidies that should go to the translator. JLLM
And when a publisher sells your translation, for example, the Readers' Circle, makes for a price you do not know, and keeps half.
P. What percentage of the price of a book is for the translator? JLLM
Typically 1%. In the authors free of duty between 3% and 5%. MTG
However, the low esteem usually occurs in things that do not cost money. Many times the book reviews the information omitted from the translator, or say that this book has been "translated" the editorial equis. I will not say to the translator on the cover of the book, which made only a few. They say it spoils the design. MS
We will call vain. Most do not put either on the web.
MTG is not vanity, is a labor issue. The publisher will pay me decently if you know that I will benefit, I'm an added value, if you know a good translation will give three cents more. And for that the reader needs to know that I exist. Some people think that all books are written in English directly. MS
In Spain 40 years ago nobody knew who had done a movie. Then came the French with the auteur. Now the audience knows that the directors have been named. Maybe one day pass that to the translators.
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