According to report, at present the only remaining national literary translation award, "Lu Xun" among the "Literary Translation Award," and this award winning a total of only five places. Review of "Lu Xun" history of literary translation award, five places in the Ping Chu often only two, gave up three places. To the sleeping mat five times, was actually vacant. That result at all, the concern of the Golden Age of literature who was very sorry.
Lack of professional translators?
Lu Xun Literary Award vacancies are less and less because translators do? The answer is clearly no. Today, China's foreign language learning staff base in the past has been quite different, almost all domestic institutions have set up foreign language professional, specializing in the number of foreign languages is not quite a few numbers. But there is little focus on the translation of literary works of talent, they bring more attention to the work of foreign language skills, opportunities and business value.
Although the status of literary translation is far less than that, but the ability to translate literary works staff are asking high. Not only proficient in foreign languages, also called translators proficient in translation theory, knowledge rich and profound Chinese literacy, strong writing skills, or even need to try to figure out word for word the original author's tone and mood. As the translator translate the older generation of re-creation, the translation is repeated verification, weighing every word, which took years to complete.
Translated from the market point of view in recent years, translation of a literary work is very low remuneration, it is difficult as a professional family. Today, these objective and subjective factors have contributed to the serious lack of professional translators, translation of Lu Xun Literature Prize for quality of the works would be very difficult to send election is assured.
Selected works involving sensitive topics?
It is understood that less than 40 this year, the Ministry of works for literary translation, only five selected Translation Award Preliminary Evaluation. Although some of these works do not translate it appropriate expression, inaccurate, there should not have missed a lot of translation. But there are two works of award-winning voice higher. But why did not these two works selected, and the reason is because the translation level below standard, or the original level is not high enough, many judges, publishers, translators, are reluctant to talk about the matter, remain silent , called the sensitive topic.
In fact, this is also not difficult to understand. Translator translation of foreign literary works, which will inevitably involve the relevant national policies and institutional, not to mention the domestic requirements for the publications has always been strict. Analysis of relevant people, and now the domestic book market is very confusing, if not translated to the level of assessment, and is not very surprising, the Nobel Prize in Literature missed a lot of good works.
Accreditation standards are not unified work?
Pair of selection criteria has always been the talk of the industry and the community. Especially literary translation of this award. Industry experts have questioned, "Lu Xun selection, then put together the multilingual, no frame of reference. English, French, and all the comments together, there is the language which the judges understand about that? You Ping Chu one the best English translation, the best he Ping Chu a French translation, how coordination between the two it? "
For a top prize of Chinese literature, the important thing is not there a controversy, but how to deal with controversy. Literary Translation Award of the vacancies with non-standard evaluation criteria of a great relationship. It now appears that how the norms of literary translation as soon as the selection criteria is the Lu Xun Prize jury should focus on solving problems. Otherwise, there may not necessarily get Lu Xun Lu Xun lived such a "ridiculous" incident.