Writing & Literature12 skills

Novel Translation skills for AI agents

12 practitioner-grade novel translation skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "novel translation"

All 12 skills

Language Reference Files — DE, IT, PT, JA, ZH, RU, AR, KO, NL
Each language has its own section. Navigate directly to the relevant one.
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German Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into German with native fluency. Handles compound words, case system, verb-final clauses, Sie/du formality, and Konjunktiv II for literary narration. Triggers: "translate to German", "translate my novel to German", "German literary translation".
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Spanish Literary Translation Reference
Covers both Castilian (Spain) and Latin American variants. Note regional variant at the start.
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French Literary Translation Reference
French literary prose uses a tense system that does not exist in English. Getting this wrong is the single most immediate marker of a non-literary translation.
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Italian Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into Italian with native fluency. Handles passato remoto vs imperfetto, pronoun dropping, lyrical cadence, and regional color. Triggers: "translate to Italian", "translate my novel to Italian", "Italian literary translation".
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Japanese Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into Japanese with native fluency. Handles honorifics, sentence-final particles, topic-comment structure, keigo levels, and vertical text conventions. Triggers: "translate to Japanese", "translate my novel to Japanese", "Japanese literary translation".
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Brazilian Portuguese Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into Brazilian Portuguese with native fluency. Handles tu/você distinction, gerund usage, cultural warmth, and features distinct from European Portuguese. Triggers: "translate to Brazilian Portuguese", "translate my novel to Portuguese BR", "Brazilian Portuguese literary translation".
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European Portuguese Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into European Portuguese with native fluency. Handles formal register, mesoclisis, enclisis, and features distinct from Brazilian Portuguese. Triggers: "translate to European Portuguese", "translate my novel to Portuguese PT", "European Portuguese literary translation".
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Simplified Chinese Literary Translation
Translates English novels and literary fiction into Simplified Chinese with native fluency. Handles chengyu, measure words, aspect markers, literary vs vernacular register, and no-tense-inflection grammar. Triggers: "translate to Chinese", "translate to Simplified Chinese", "Chinese literary translation".
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novel-translate
Literary novel translator: translates English novels and long-form fiction into other languages so they read as if originally written in the target language — not as a translation. Use whenever the user wants to translate a novel, book, story, chapter, or any literary prose from English into another language. Triggers: "translate my novel", "translate this chapter", "translate my book to Spanish/French/German/Japanese/etc.", "make this sound natural in [language]", "literary translation", "translate without sounding like a translation", "localize my novel", "translate prose", "translate fiction". Always apply the full literary translation methodology — never produce word-for-word or sentence-by-sentence mechanical translation.
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TRANSLATION GLOSSARY
Glossary to be updated with each chapter. Review before beginning each new chapter.
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Universal Literary Craft Reference
Cross-language translation principles, the full translationese audit, and craft guidance applicable to all target languages.
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