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Lawrence Venuti, Author of the Month

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Lawrence Venuti, author of the new book Translation Changes Everything, is a professor of English at Temple University, a translation theorist and historian, as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is also the Routledge Linguistics Author of the Month!

"The strength of Venuti's writing comes from his tenacity... Venuti pursues complex and sensitive issues through detailed discussion of examples." - Sherry Simon, Concordia University, Montreal, QB

"His range of reference is impressively wide. He conveys large amounts of detail with a pleasant urgency." - New York Times Book Review

Aside from his teaching and translating work, Professor Venuti is a member of the editorial board of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. In 1998, he edited a special issue of The Translator devoted to translation and minority. Click here to listen to an interview with Professor Venuti at the Routledge Translation Studies Portal.

His new book from Routledge, Translation Changes Everything, gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. This latest chapter in his developing work is essential reading for translators and students of translation alike.

For this month only, all of Professor Venuti’s Routledge books are 20% off! Scroll down to browse these must-read titles, then use Discount Code HRK54 at checkout.

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  1. Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    By Lawrence Venuti

    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge

  2. The Translation Studies Reader

    3rd Edition

    Edited by Lawrence Venuti

    The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on twentieth-century developments. With introductory essays prefacing each section, the book places a wide range of seminal and...

    Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation, 2nd Edition

    By Lawrence Venuti

    Since publication over ten years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency...

    Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge

  4. The Scandals of Translation

    Towards an Ethics of Difference

    By Lawrence Venuti

    Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations.Lawrence Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship...

    Published August 5th 1998 by Routledge

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