Editing War with the Newts (section)

== Translations ==

The novel was translated into several languages within a year of its first publication. During the [[Second World War]], it was blacklisted by the Nazis in 1940 in Germany and in 1941 by Nazi-occupied Norway.

''War with the Newts'' has been translated into English at least three times. Reviewers describe the  1936 [[Allen & Unwin]] translation by the husband-and-wife team of [[Marie and Robert Weatherall]] as competent but uninspired. The language of the era is preserved, but some of Čapek's literary techniques are obscured.<ref name=Maslen>{{cite journal|last=Maslen|first=Elizabeth|title=Proper Words in Proper Places: the Challenge of Čapek's "War with the Newts"|journal=Science Fiction Studies|year=1987|volume=14|issue=1|pages=82–92|doi=10.1525/sfs.14.1.0082 |url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/maslen41.htm}}</ref> The 1985 translation, by the Czech [[Ewald Osers]], is regarded by many reviewers as superior, capturing the crispness and strong metaphors of the original.<ref name=Maslen />  This translation was supported by the [[UNESCO Collection of Representative Works]]. Veteran [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]] translator David Wyllie completed another translation. New translations in [[Russian (language)|Russian]], [[Polish (language)|Polish]], [[French (language)|French]], [[German (language)|German]], [[Dutch (language)|Dutch]], [[Norwegian (language)|Norwegian]], [[Spanish (language)|Spanish]], [[Swedish (language)|Swedish]], and [[Hungarian (language)|Hungarian]] have appeared since the 1960s.