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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/ishiguro-translating-nobel-laureate-ukrainian/"></div><p>On October 5 I awoke to the news that Kazuo Ishiguro had received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. I was overjoyed. Over the past few months I had been translating his latest novel, <em>The Buried Giant</em>, into Ukrainian, and therefore felt a particular kinship with both the author and his characters. As with all my previous translations, during the translation process I had been worried about the work’s reception in Ukraine. I had often asked myself, “Would the book receive enough publicity? Would <em>The Buried Giant</em> make a splash in Ukrainian or remain largely unnoticed?” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/ishiguro-translating-nobel-laureate-ukrainian/#more-5793" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Ishiguro Before and After: On Translating a Nobel Laureate into Ukrainian

Tetiana Savchynska is a literary translator based in Lviv, Ukraine. Her published translations include both fiction and non-fiction books by such authors as John le Carré, Julia Cameron, Anne Fine, Kazuo Ishiguro, and others. Currently, she is a Fulbright fellow and a graduate student in the Comparative Literature program at Dartmouth College.