Today, I awoke to very sad and to be perfectly honest, infuriating news.
I’ve always detested the Portuguese translation of SJM’s books. Everyone and their mother who has talked to me about it knows that I think it is awkward, inaccurate, stilted and just done poorly. Nevermind the lousy choices to translate some nicknames/titles (I’m never getting over Wyvern and Wing Leader).
But this thread is not about my personal feelings on the matter, although it does concern the translation. It has come to my attention that the Brazilian publisher who does the translation — Galera Record, one of the largest in the country — has routinely white-washed characters in their translations. Changed things around so they’re straight, too (I’m sorry, I’ve no idea if there’s a proper term to this).
It was so bad with HoEaB that it went to trending topics and they promised to fix it in the next edition but that does not solve the issue. SJM’s isn’t the only one this happened too. Other big name authors, like Cassie Clara and VE Schwab have had the same issue with their books.
This isn’t about if the books are diverse or no, this is another discussion. This is about the diversity they do have being deliberately changed in the translation. Its absurd, infuriating and it must stop.
This is the original thread posted on twitter. There are other things that thread touches upon, but this is not my concern.
Please if you can read retweet the thread, reblog this post, make your own. But please don’t let this subject be ignored.
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@gabriellerudessa I’m not sure, but I’d say it’s likely :/ And as always things on Brazil continues to spiral... Goddamnit, Galera!!!
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