Lost in translation

The Translators Association of the Society of Authors have compiled a list of 50 outstanding translations of the last half century:
1. Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style (Barbara Wright, 1958)
2. Primo Levi, If This is a Man (Stuart Woolf, 1959)
3. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Archibald Colquhoun, 1961)
4. Günter Grass, The Tin Drum (Ralph Manheim, 1962)
5. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (Donald Yates, James Irby, 1962)
6. Leonardo Sciascia, Day of the Owl (Archibald Colquhoun, 1963)
7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ralph Parker, 1963)
8. Yukio Mishima, Death in Midsummer (Seidensticker, Keene, Morris, Sargent, 1965)
9. Heinrich Böll, The Clown (Leila Vennewitz, 1965)
10. Octavio Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude (Lysander Kemp, 1967)
11. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Michael Glenny, 1969)
12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude (Gregory Rabassa, 1970)

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Rico says of the first dozen books on the list, he's read at least half...