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The paper offers the following characterization of translations in normed spaces: Let \(X\) be a normed space and \(f:X\to X\) be an isometry satisfying the following two assumptions: (1) There exists an \(n\in {\mathbb N}\) such that the \(n\)th iterate \(f^n\) of \(f\) has no fixed points; (2) For every \(x\in X\), the points \(x,f(x),f(x^2)\) are collinear. Then there exists a nonzero element \(a\in X\) such that \(f(x)=x+a\) for all \(x\in X\). Another result of the paper also characterizes those isometries that satisfy only condition (2).