Haruki Murakami’s fifth book, Norwegian Wood, was a sensation in Japan when it was first released in 1987. Despite its success, it wasn’t widely available in English until 2000.

Just 3%: that’s the number of books published in the U.S. that are works in translation. And only a fraction of those are fiction titles. Even fewer are books for children and teens. In ...

TEHRAN -- Iranian scholar Mohammad Ziar has translated a number of children’s stories by Ahmadreza Ahmadi from Persian into French. The collection includes six stories which have been chosen by Ahmadi ...