Recommended Readings on Translation – PEN America

Interesting list they have there…

Edith Grossman, Why Translation Matters (Yale University Press, 2010)
A defense of the cultural importance of the art of translation by one of its most respected proponents.

Umberto Eco, Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation (Phoenix, 2003)
A clearly written analysis of challenges facing the translator—and why we can never be replaced by machines!

David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Faber & Faber, 2011) Each chapter tackles a different aspect of the art of translation using straightforward language.

Gill Paul, ed., Translation in Practice: A Symposium by the British Centre for Literary Translation (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series, 2008)