Of course, there are also literary translators who translate novels and fiction – but that is a different job description altogether.

It is therefore not surprising that the work of translation offices can be encountered in a lot of places in every day life, even though you may not notice it at first glance. Obviously, the great amount of books by foreign authors that you see in a bookstore has been translated at some point - a less obvious example is, however, the manual that came with your sandwich toaster.  Benjamin