Abstract - The present study investigates the probable relationship of Literary Intelligence (LI) and Literary Translation (LT) on English non-translation students. The purpose of the research is to see if LI is so strong for them having not taken translation courses to affect the quality of their LT, as they have proved their positive relationship in English translation students based on recent research. 105 Iranian English literature and teaching students participated in this research and were given the LI questionnaire and a literary text to translate from English into Persian. Their translations were rated by two university instructors according to Waddington Translation Assessment Model C. After performing Kolmogorov- Smirnov Test for the normality of the data, Pearson Correlation Test was run and the results showed a lack of any significant relationship between LI and LT in English non-translation students. The result affirmed that for LT, LI is not a determining factor and translation knowledge cannot be overlooked.

Keywords