When his award-winning translation of Borge's works was reviewed, his name was not even mentioned. Translators have had to fight just to have their names featured and to receive a share of royalties, for instance, through the Translation Committee of the PEN American Center. This is a point the American Translators Association has fought hard to make in a long-running battle with the U.S. government to have translation recognized as a professional occupation. The joy of translation. Weinberger noted that much is said about the problems of translation, but no one ever mentions the joy of translation.
Translation gives a writer critical distance, often pointing out errors or inadequacies.
For example, in Weinberger's collaboration with Paz, who was himself a translator, Paz would dialogue with Weinberger about the English translation of his work, but always gave his translator the last word. Translating Latin American Fiction. Weinberger's love of the profession made some of the technical translators in attendance want to run out and take a stab at their longstanding dream of translating literature. Weinberger recalled how he himself started translating Paz as a high school student, to practice writing poetry. Most Latin American poets, he said, would be thrilled to be published in English.