Stephen King is featured in this week(end)'s 'By the Book' Q & A in The New York Times Book Review, and among the questions posed to him were:
Do you enjoy fiction in translation ? Stories from particular corners of the world ?It's a fair objection, of course; still, not something that one hears too often nowadays. (And he does admit: "I also enjoyed Stieg Larsson, wooden prose and all".)
I actually avoid novels in translation when I can, because I always have the feeling that the author is being filtered through another mind.