british council – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Very Cool, Very Useful /College/translation/threepercent/2008/04/16/very-cool-very-useful/ /College/translation/threepercent/2008/04/16/very-cool-very-useful/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:07:15 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2008/04/16/very-cool-very-useful/ Thanks to (Michael Orthofer is always on top of everything!) for pointing out the the British Council recently launched.

The paucity of info available about Arabic books has been a frequent complaint of many a publisher, so this site should make an immediate difference. The could use some better navigation, and it would be great if translators would post English samples, but whatever, there’s finally a fiction section would searching through for interesting titles. I guess my only other hope is that they develop some way of getting the word out when new info is added. (I can envision this becoming one of those sites I have bookmarked but infrequently check in on.)

In addition to fiction (which is what I naturally gravitate towards) there are sections on and Overall, kudos to the BC for putting this together. And launching it in conjunction with the London Book Fair.

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