To translate literature is the job of a professional translator or a machine. Period. The time of an expert is too much expensive to spent it on that, so this i

To translate literature is the job of a professional translator or a machine. Period. The time of an expert is too much expensive to spent it on that, so this is an extremely dumb tradition. In fact is so dumb that research is the only part of literature where the author is required to write also the translated edition. Just imagine how much damage that would do to the literature if we would apply that rule to every piece of poetry or every written novel, and how many interesting authors and books we would lose. Do you imagine how much JK Rowling would struggle writing Harry Potter in Spanish, and how much extra time and effort would need to put on it? This is exactly the same (except that you give your novel for free instead to became rich).