Translating a book from German to English language

[kuji77]

Can anyone give a say on this? There is a big name professor in our hospital who asked my advice to translate a 400 pages book from German to English, I will be doing this on a volunteer basis.
Should I ask him to post my name as a co-author or an editor, or this is considered too much to ask

I have never participated in Books writing before, I literally have zero experience, I need some advice before approaching my professor for such thing, many thanks

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[hopefuldoc97239]

what do you think you'd get out of it, if not an authorship?

to me, there already seems to be fairly little value in getting your name on a translated edition of a book. residencies aren't going to think "great s/he translates books from german to english, this is someone i MUST HAVE in my next class of residents!" not getting your name on the book has even less value.

there's my two cents