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Working with the translators at Mowa, who translated and copyedited my monograph into English, went perfectly in every respect. They showed great sensitivity to the subtleties of literary language and a sure grasp of the methodologies of contemporary humanities. The translation was delivered on time, and a foreign reviewer of my book praised the quality of its English.

I have had the opportunity and the pleasure of working with Mowa several times, on translation, proofreading, and copyediting for projects in literary studies. Every time I met with complete professionalism, the work always ran on schedule, and every part of it was carried out perfectly. Literary scholarship on nineteenth-century culture has its own character and demands a particular terminology, and historical context matters in it as well. Mowa translated and copyedited two of my monographs, and also made them easier to read for audiences outside the Polish-speaking world, so that those readers could properly understand descriptions of works and phenomena that are central to Polish literature but opaque outside it.

I would like to underline the professionalism of Mowa, its reliability and its punctuality, which matters today because publishers hold us authors to deadlines too. Another important quality of the people there is the courtesy with which they work. I would like to thank Mowa for a wonderful collaboration. I recommend them, and I recommend Mowa, a company that puts weight on thorough, expert service, on honesty, and on a very high standard of work. They approach every client individually, because scholarly work is itself specific and original. I warmly encourage you to work with them.

I hold Mowa’s translation work in very high regard. That applies to the linguistic quality of the translation as much as to the erudition with which they settle a translated and copyedited text into its new textual and cultural surroundings, a task that often goes well beyond a translator’s duties. Add to this their scrupulous punctuality and their excellent, businesslike contact with the author, and you come close to a portrait of the specialist translator as an ideal made flesh. I offer these words of appreciation on the basis of my own experience of Mowa’s work on my book, and also on the strength of the favorable reports that have reached me about the work of Mowa on books published in Cross-Roads: Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History, the Peter Lang series I edit.

Working with Mowa went smoothly and reliably in every respect. Every stage of the collaboration, on the business side and on the substantive side alike, I would describe as highly professional. I appreciate how they treat a client, how well they communicate, and how closely they involve themselves in the translation process. I also rate highly their punctuality, their subject expertise, and their care for linguistic nuance in the translated and copyedited text. I intend to entrust further translations to Mowa.

I am very pleased with my collaboration with Mowa. My book was translated and copyedited soundly, with a feel for form and a care for linguistic nuance. On the practical side, what sets the company apart is its individual approach to the author and the text, and its punctuality. A further strength is the high quality of its English.

I worked with Mowa on the translation of a literary study of Czesław Miłosz’s work. Besides the good rapport between us, I valued their efficiency and their professionalism.

I am fully satisfied with my collaboration with Mowa on the translation of my book On an Electric Arc: Andrzej Bobkowski Writing. The translators have experience with texts in the humanities, and particularly in Polish philology and comparative literature. Their competent translation came with a sure grasp of the state of research and with proper use of existing English translations of Polish literature. The collaboration itself went very well, which is how we arrived at happy solutions to the difficult and problematic points.

Translation is a procedure in which the author of the original hands part of his authority to someone else. Working with Mowa keeps down the risk that the translation will take something away from the original, or that the translator will dominate the author and take excessive power over the text. I trusted them completely. I would not hesitate to entrust my texts to them again.

I worked with Mowa on the English version of my book for Peter Lang. They handled the translation and the initial editing before the book went to typesetting at Peter Lang. The collaboration was fully professional. Every deadline was met, during the translation and during the later proofreading. My own later corrections were taken into account as well. Not once was a new version of the text delayed. The text was approved after only minor proofreading corrections from the English editor at Peter Lang. I also received help with the organizational and financial side, with the settlement for the whole job. Only the substance was left to me. Overall I judge my collaboration with Mowa to have been fully satisfactory and professional.

Mowa is a guarantee of professionalism: Routledge took the translation essentially without corrections. The work went efficiently, on time, and pleasantly on a human level. As an author you can forget about the drudgery of formatting notes and bibliography, or hunting for quotations in the English editions of the books you cite. Clear answers to the doubts that come up for those of us who speak conference English. I recommend them.

I worked with Mowa on the translation of my book Pragmatism and Radical Liberalism: A Study of John Dewey’s Political Thought. They prepared a professional translation, and they also helped with the letter of proposal and with the correspondence with the publisher. I am convinced the book would never have appeared without that support. As for the translation itself, it is of a very high order. Their individual approach to the author and the text took me pleasantly by surprise. The people at Mowa are open to corrections and changes that bring the translation closer to the author’s intentions and stylistic preferences. In sum, I recommend working with Mowa without reservation, for their punctuality, their expertise, and their individual support in what is, after all, a difficult undertaking: translating a scholarly book.

I want to thank Mowa once again, most warmly, for a crystal-clear and precise translation. It gives me particular satisfaction that when I read the English version I hear my own voice in it, my rhythm, the logic of my sentences. Great respect, and hats off. 🙂