Australia

Australian translators work at the far end of the English-language publishing chain, taking French, Russian and other literatures into English from the southern hemisphere. The tag gathers the translators listed here, whatever their source language, so you can find the person behind the book.

Stephanie Smee and Zhuk Translation, the practice of Lilit Žekulin Thwaites, work from Australia into English, and the distance shapes what they take on. Smee is known for French fiction in translation, Žekulin Thwaites for Russian. That pairing is not typical of the United States or the United Kingdom, where translators cluster around a handful of languages and publishers. Canada shares the Commonwealth frame but not the same source languages. Readers after a literary translator in Australia find both here.