Granit Zela: The Job Where You Argue With Every Sentence

A great translation can feel effortless, which is exactly why so many people underestimate what it takes. We sit down with Granit Zela, an Albanian poet, writer, university lecturer, and award-winning literary translator, to get honest about the craft behind “bringing a book into another language” and the real intellectual property questions hiding inside every sentence. Granit takes us back to an isolated childhood in northeastern Albania, where discovering his father’s small library became...