Literary translation

If you need to translate artwork and convey an emotional part of an original text, our agency will accomplish that for you. Online-Polyglot will exuberantly perform for you literary translation of any texts that require a creative approach including professional translation of:

• Prose
• Songs
• Poetry
• Fiction
• Stories
• Articles

We take up any kind of literary translation, whether literary translation of songs, poetry or prose with great pleasure and inspiration. We do not only provide a translation of the provided materials; we also style it for the particular country where the translated material is going to be published. For this purpose we cooperate with many linguists throughout the world who are native speakers of target languages. Specialists in literary translation, working for Online-Polyglot perform any kind of artistic works at a high level.

Please contact us for any additional information and to request a free quote now. We will be happy to answer any questions and provide you with an estimate for the best professional translation services.

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Artwork translations play an important role in our translation agency because our approach to the source information allows us to provide the best quality of the rendered poetic text.

Work is done using a concrete algorithm. The professional translator reads the text through then allocates individual terms, divides the text into logical sections and translates these sections one by one. Besides, we pay great attention to the stylistic translation.

The literary translated text is processed in several stages. Professional translation of literature is fundamentally different from other types of translation. This is because the main principle of literary translation is the dominance of poetic communicative function. This means that in addition to rendering information to the reader, literary translation also has aesthetic functions. The artistic image created in the particular literature artwork (whether it be the image of a character or nature) will certainly have an impact on the reader. For this reason the literary translator should take into account specific features of the text. It is the poetic focus of the text that makes this type of translation different from, say, texts of an informative type. When reading a story, poem or any other type of literary work translated from a foreign language, we perceive the text itself with its meaning, emotions and characters. It is quite a challenging task to achieve the main goal of the professional translation - creating a particular image for the reader. Therefore, literary translation might involve some deviations from the standard rules. A literal translation cannot reflect the depth and meaning of the literary work. A literary professional translator reproduces a non-literal rendition of the original text. It is all about how the translator perceives it. He/she rewrites the text from the beginning to the very end. This applies, for example, when an obvious expression is replaced by synonyms or the structure of sentences is changed.

Literary translation requires a lot of skill. We should not forget that the translation of a book, a poem or a song perhaps will be read by thousands of readers. This means that the text needs to be adequate and moreover - we need to focus on the fact that the translated document should create the same image as the original. Perfectly performed work often makes the professional translator famous. The guild of masters of literary translation determines the best translators of the year.

Specialists in literature, poetry and song translation working for Polyglot perform any kind of artistic works at a high level.
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