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For writers, editors, and translators

Bring your book to new readers without losing its voice.

Translate your book one passage at a time, with the original and the translation side by side. You keep or change every line, so the finished book still sounds like you wrote it.

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promises kept on every page
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every line, next to the original
You
keep the final word
ES → EN Chapter one, first lines

Original

El mar, al amanecer, no era azul sino una lamina de plata que respiraba.

Translation

Approved

At dawn the sea was not blue but a sheet of silver, breathing.

How your book gets translated

The care of a fine literary translation, at your own pace. Sign in to begin.

Start with your manuscript

Bring the book you have written or are editing. It is laid out chapter by chapter, ready to work on, with nothing lost along the way.

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A faithful first draft

Every passage is translated with an ear for rhythm and meaning, following the seven promises below, so it reads like literature and not a machine.

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You have the final say

Read the original and the translation together. Keep a line, rewrite it in your own words, or ask for another. Nothing is final until you decide.

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The seven promises behind every translation

What we hold ourselves to on every page of your book.

  1. 01

    Voice over literalness

    If a word-for-word version would flatten your voice, we keep the voice. You wrote a book, not a document.

  2. 02

    Rhythm matters

    The music of your sentences carries over, even when a line has to be reshaped so it still sings in the new language.

  3. 03

    Some words stay home

    Terms of endearment, foods, place names, and forms of address keep their original language when that is where they belong.

  4. 04

    Names stay as written

    Your characters and your places keep the names you gave them.

  5. 05

    Nothing is smoothed away

    No softening of your images, no simplifying for easy reading, no making your book sound like every other book on the shelf.

  6. 06

    Hard moments are flagged, not faked

    When a phrase truly cannot cross over, we tell you and let you decide, instead of quietly inventing a solution.

  7. 07

    You have the final say

    On every word. Always. It is your book.

Ready to bring your book to new readers?

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