When the audience changes : translating adult fiction for young readers

Zlatnar Moe, Marija (author), Žigon, Tanja (author)

Much is expected to change when a work of fiction is translated from one language and culture to another, but the intended reader is not. This paper deals with the issue of the change of the intended reader from adult to child/adolescent in translations of fiction from English into Slovene. The intended reader is most likely to change in translations of comics/cartoons, fantasy, and realistic fiction with child or animal protagonists. The reasons for the change can be both textual and extra-textual: on the one hand, books are categorized as children's books by libraries, award boards and marketers, as well as by the publisher's choice of translator, while, on the other hand, individual translation decisions on the microlevel can help move a book from one category to another.

• Language: English
• Keywords: literary translation, comics and fantasy translation, target reader, translation for children, translation into a peripheral language
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 242-260
• Numbering: Vol. 15, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-160737-d7ff1e33-c6a0-e7b6-f027-ff708afe67cc
• UDC: 81'255.4
• ISSN on article: 1932-2798
• DOI: 10.1075/tis.20015.zla
• COBISS.SI-ID: 71808866
• Publication date in RUL: 04.09.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Translation and interpreting studies
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association
• ISSN: 1932-2798
• COBISS.SI-ID: 39522914

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: književno prevajanje, prevodi stripov in fantazijske književnosti, prevajanje za otroke, ciljni bralci, prevajanje v periferne jezike

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0265
• Name: Medkulturne literarnovedne študije