Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations

Rajendra Chitnis is an Associate Professor of Czech at the University of Oxford. Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at University College London. Rhian Atkin is a translator and editor, and a researcher at CLEPUL, University of Lisbon. Zoran Milutinović is a Professor of South Slav Literature and Modern Literary Theory at University College London.

• Rajendra Chitnis and Jakob Stougaard-NielsenIntroduction1. David NorrisThe Global Presentation of Small National Literatures: South Slavs in Literary History and Theory2. Zoran MilutinovićTranslators as Ambassadors and Gatekeepers: The Case of South Slav Literature3. Ondřej VimrSupply-Driven Translation: Compensating for Lack of Demand4. Rajendra ChitnisLiterature as Cultural Diplomacy: Czech Literature in Britain, 1918-385. Irvin WoltersExporting the Canon: The Mixed Experience of the Dutch Bibliotheca Neerlandica6. Olivia HellewellCreative Autonomy and Institutional Support in Contemporary Slovene Literature7. Richard MansellStrategies for Success?: Evaluating the Rise of Catalan Literature8. Gunilla Hermansson and Yvonne LefflerGender, Genre and Nation: Nineteenth-Century Swedish Women Writers on Export9. Paschalis NikolaouTranslating as Re-telling: On the English Proliferation of C.P. Cavafy10. Jakob Stougaard-NielsenCriminal Peripheries: The Globalization of Scandinavian Crime Fiction and its Agents11. Paulina DrewniakLiterary Translation and Digital Culture: The Transmedial Breakthrough of Poland’s Witcher12. Josianne MamoTowards a Multilingual Poetics: Self-Translation, Translingualism and Maltese Literature13. Rhian AtkinDoes Size Matter? Questioning Methods for the Study of ‘Small’Svend Erik LarsenCoda: When Small is Big and Big is Small

‘Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations covers a lot of ground and one leaves it with a heightened respect for translators and for the multitude of European literatures.’ Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Translation Studies