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Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 137–154

Chapter 7
Institutional consecration of fifteen Swedish translators – ‘star translators’ or not?

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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • A general model for reconstructing consecration mechanisms
  • Tokens of institutional consecration of the Swedish literary translation field
  • The studied group of translators
  • Personal trajectories and ‘stardomship’
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 May 2021
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