The Bangkok Post has a little item about a book launch, of the Thai translation of Wang Anyi's 小鮑莊 (published in English as Baotown), and while it's nice to see this book becoming available in Thai what's most striking is who the translator is: Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Yes, HRH turns out to be quite active, literarily speaking -- aside from having gotten a Master of Arts in Oriental Epigraphy (Sanskrit and Cambodian) (see her biography, at her fancier-than-the-usual-author/translator-site ...), she's written quite a few books, as well as translated some; see her ... bibliography.
(Of course, given Thailand's notoriously nutty lèse-majesté laws (see, for example, Thailand's lese-majeste law fuels calls for reform in The Los Angeles Times just last week), it seems unlikely that any critic would dare comment on the quality of the translation except in the most general, generous terms .....)
Yes, HRH turns out to be quite active, literarily speaking -- aside from having gotten a Master of Arts in Oriental Epigraphy (Sanskrit and Cambodian) (see her biography, at her fancier-than-the-usual-author/translator-site ...), she's written quite a few books, as well as translated some; see her ... bibliography.
(Of course, given Thailand's notoriously nutty lèse-majesté laws (see, for example, Thailand's lese-majeste law fuels calls for reform in The Los Angeles Times just last week), it seems unlikely that any critic would dare comment on the quality of the translation except in the most general, generous terms .....)