At Publishing Perspectives Olivia Snaije profiles Victoria Cribb, in The Loneliness of the Icelandic Translator.
Among the interesting titbits:
Among the interesting titbits:
"Many authors pay me out of their own pocket and then sell the book to a publisher or else the translation is used to market the book to the English market, or it's used to sell to other markets," said Cribb. The first two books she translated for Sjón, for example, haven't yet been published in English.