ABSTRACT
Who are translators? How are they regarded and paid? A profession in crisis and its storied past. Translators as generals, slaves, and prophets. Translation as a sword, as a faithful copy, as a window that lets in the light. What do translators feel and think? Translator-centred Translation Studies, or “Translator Studies”. Trying to isolate each translator’s “mind style”. Translation stylistics and translator biography (or autobiography). The life, times and styles of a few translators. Translating is all too human – that is why nothing ever stays the same. Even machine translation is human. Translation changes everything.
