Not only do you have to find an excellent translator, one who works well in both languages and is a stylist to boot (or who can work in tandem with someone else, like the excellent Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky do in Russian), but the copy editing and proofreading take on a new layer of work.
"Its mandate, or at least the committee's interpretation of its mandate, requires it to perform little more than a proof-reading function, " Ms Crowe said.