On the Weight of a Name: What Finnish and Swedish Fiction Teaches Us About Naming Characters

There is a moment in every translation when the translator must decide whether a name is merely a name. I spent eleven days one winter on a single surname. The novel was Finnish, the character was called Talvitie, and the scene in which he first appears takes place on a January road in Ostrobothnia, the … Continue reading "On the Weight of a Name: What Finnish and Swedish Fiction Teaches Us About…