Impact of translation

Judith Woodsworth
Concordia University
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In his speech at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm, the 2012 laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature paid tribute to his translators. Without them “there would be no world literature,” Mo Yan said, “[their] work is a bridge that helps people to understand and respect each other” (Mo Yan 2012).

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