The role of home reading of fiction in literary translation training

Today the translation activity covers the whole world. These days it is difficult to imagine any area of social, scientific, and cultural life without translation. Literary translation plays an important role in intercultural communication. Literary translation should consider how to develop in future translators a sense of language, understanding its clarity, correctness and expressiveness. In terms of lingua didactic principles set of exercises are useful in literary translation training. One of them is based on home reading of fiction. Reading, discussion, translation and comparison of different translated versions (by students) of authentic texts (fiction) give good results in students' training for literary translation.