In this Master's thesis, we investigated how individual foreign languages were represented in the translated literature between 2004 and 2021 and how this was influenced by the availability of subsidies. Based on the data obtained and the literature reviewed, we then decided to look at the diversity of translated literature, the diversity of grants for translated literature, whether the number of grants is growing and whether the languages chosen for translation are mainly from Europe. We also looked more specifically at the number of translations from English and investigated how many grants for translation from this language are received annually by publishers. The survey showed that the number of translations increased after accession to the European Union, but started to stagnate shortly afterwards. Similar results were observed for language diversity. The number of literary translation grants received also increased after 2004, but started to decline soon afterwards. English proved to be the dominant language both in terms of the number of translations and the number of subsidies received. We conclude our survey by noting that the state of the translated literature has not changed dramatically over the last 18 years. Translations still come almost exclusively from European or American countries. Languages from these countries are also the most frequent recipients of subsidies, and English has always been the predominant language.
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