Literary Translation and the Nobel Prize

Paul Tenngart is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Lund University, Sweden. He has published articles on Swedish and French poetry, politics and ideology, prose translations from Swedish to English, translation patterns from and to semi-peripheral positions, and Anthropocene fiction.Karl Ågerup is Professor of Comparative Literature at Södertörn University, Sweden. His academic work primarily explores the intersection of literature and politics, with a particular focus on the reception of French literature. His research also investigates the pedagogical dimensions of provocative literature, specifically through the concept of "didafiction".

• Literary Translation and Nobel Consecration: An Introduction, Paul Tenngart and Karl Ågerup, Part I. Wide Patterns 1. The Circular Relationship Between the Nobel Prize and Literary Translations, Gisèle Sapiro 2. A Critique of Translation as a Force for Centralized Literary Consecration, Anthony Pym 3. The Multiagent Nature of Global Literary Authorship: The Role of Translators in Nobel Consecration, Hülya Yildiz 4. Idealism, Transduction, Cultural Translation and Nobel Consecration, Anthony Uhlmann Part II. Spaces of Consecration, 5. The Nobel Prize as a Swedish News Event, Karin Nykvist 6. The Gender Gap: Swedish Publishing of Female Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature (1970–2016), Jana Rüegg Part III. Geo-cultural Positions 7. Exploring the Long-term Consecration of the Nobel Prize: Italian Laureates in Reference Works of World Literary History, Cecilia Schwartz 8. The Nobel Prize and Translation: Insights from Translating Kawabata and Ōe, Takashi Inoue 9. The Nobel Effect and Magical Realism: Global Translation and Consecration of a Literary Style, Álvaro Santana-Acuña 10. Nobel Obligations: Prize Decisions, Postcolonialism and the Quest for Cultural Inclusion, Paul Tenngart Part IV. Particular Laureates and Translators 11. Consecration and Translation: Yeats as an Example, Lars-Håkan Svensson 12. From Hemingway to the Harlem Renaissance: Thorsten Jonsson’s Translations of American Modernism and the History of the Nobel Prize, Oscar Jansson 13. World Literature, Singable Translation, and Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Win, Michael Ka-chi Cheuk, The Translator and the Author Will Simply Write Each Other Down: an Afterword, Jan Henrik Swahn, Bibliography, Index