This master’s thesis examines the translation of children’s literature from German into Slovene on the basis of the Slovene translation of Anja Tuckermann’s fairy tale Nusret und die Kuh. The starting point of the thesis is a personal translation experience, yet the analysis approaches translation not as a finished product, but as a multi-stage process involving the translator, mentors, copy-editor and editor. The theoretical part discusses children’s literature, the fairy tale, translating for children, cultural references, translation norms, functional approaches, and the relationship between domestication and foreignization. The analytical part compares the source text, the initial translation, mentor-corrected versions, the copy-edited and edited version, and the published translation. Particular attention is paid to the naming of the protagonist, cultural references, the migration context, readability, repetition, rhythm, orality, humour and fantastic elements. The analysis shows that the translation gradually moves towards greater idiomaticity, syntactic clarity and functional adequacy for the Slovene child reader, while largely preserving the cultural specificity, playfulness and fantastic logic of the source text. The final translation is therefore understood as the result of a collaborative and norm-governed process.
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