In this article the relationship between translation and hybridity is discussed. Translation and hybridity are alternatives to ideas of assimilation and multiculturalism. They emphasize the disjunctive and provisional nature of affiliation, taking the form of interlingual or mixed expression. This brings about the question: if a hybrid text is in some sense already a translation, a product of the encounter between two languages, how is this plurilingual, hybrid text itself to be translated?