Aims to bridge the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as distinctive creative literary practice.

Introduction: Peter Bush and Susan Bassnett; 1. A Dialogue: On a Translator's Interventions; Ros Schwartz and Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge University, UK; Part I: The Politics of Writing Translations; 2. The Writer of Translations; Peter Bush; 3. Let Poetry Win: The Translator as Writer, an Indian Perspective; Lakshmi Holmstrom; 4. Motivation in a Surrogate Translation of Goldoni; Bill Findlay; 5. Translation: Walking the Tightrope of Illusion; Anthea Bell; Part II: Re-discovery and Re-invention; 6. Translating Fun: Don Quixote; John Rutherford, Queen's College, Oxford, UK; 7. A Czech Shakespeare?; Jiri Josek, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 8. The Translator in Aliceland: On Translating Alice in Wonderland into Spanish; Juan Gabriel Lopez; 9. Translating the Literary: Genetic Criticism, Text Theory and Poetry; Clive Scott, University of East Anglia, UK; 10. Translating Modern Chinese Literature; John Balcom, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA.; Part III: Body, Blood and Mind; 11. Translating from the Body: Meditations on Mediation Excerpts; Carol Maier, Kent State University, USA; 12. The Alien Made Known: The Compact of Writer and Translator in Kerstin Ekman's Writing About Nature; Anna Paterson; 13. Re-writing Children's Literature; Jacok Kenda; Part IV: Translation and Creativity; 14. The Translator as Writer; Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK.; 15. What Comes Next? Reconstructing the Classics; Josephine Balmer; 16. Being Wildean: A Dialogue on the Importance of Style in Translation; Alberto Mira, Oxford Brookes University, UK Epilogue: Metaphors for a Translator; Michael Hanne, University of Auckland, New Zealand; Index.

Now available in paperback, the editors of this book are internationally known in the field of literary translation and translation studies - particularly as promoters of the view that translation as a creative practice rather than a mechanical process.

All the translators contributing to the volume have a long experience of translating and an international reputation in the field including several prize-winning translators (John Rutherford, Anthea Bell and Anna Paterson) and the Slovenian translator of the Harry Potter books and His Dark Materials series.