Thank You, Translators

Translators are unsung heroes and heroines. I shudder to think of all the incredible writing I would have missed - an immeasurable loss - if there were no translators: the works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Flaubert, Colette, Camus, De Beauvoir, Proust, Dante, Mann, Lady Murasaki, Neruda, Tagore, and so many more, including the many, many translated older and contemporary novels, stories, and poems that I have read by authors from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe. Some say "It's not the same as in the original language." Of course it's not the same, but the distance between "not the same" and "not at all" is vast! So thank you very much, translators! We owe you a great debt.