Matthew Reynolds

Translators are the unsung heroes of literature. Or, to be fair, largely unsung—they have a share in the International Booker Prize which recognizes author and translator, who divide the £50,000 prize money and there is International Translation Day, marked on September 30. It’s a chance to celebrate the small presses which publish translated novels and poems, as well as the amazing advances in online translation and, above all, the human translators whose skills matter now more than ever.