Translators important in International Man Booker Prize</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Translators important in International Man Booker Prize"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Translators,important,in,International,Man,Booker,Prize"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">11-04-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Translators important in International Man Booker Prize</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Toronto, Canada (NP): The other important part of [the International Man Booker] prize is that translators play an essential role in many of the selected works and deserve as much recognition as the authors — if a translator was involved in the winning author’s work, he or she will receive 15,000 pounds or about $34,000. “It is a sign of the disrespect in which translators have customarily been held, and a sign, too, of the parochialism of the British literary scene, that foreign literature in translation is so neglected,” he said. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d280b32d-e016-45ec-a38a-debf3e8e2302&k=0 " target="blank">www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d280b32d-e016-45ec-a38a-debf3e8e2302&k=0 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show