Why do we read so few translations?

By |2019-04-12T14:40:13+01:00January 29th, 2017|Categories: Horn of Africa, Interventions, Maghreb, News, North India, Reading, Translations|Tags: , , , , |

Statistics show that only between 3 - 5% of literary books published in the UK are translations. Ann Morgan in A Year of Reading the World writes about the difficulty in finding out about and getting hold of translations, even in the age of global publishing.