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Translation Flows: Exploring networks of people, processes and products
Edited by Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart
[Benjamins Translation Library 163] 2023
► pp. 149–162

Chapter 8
Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018

| Stockholm University

Inspired by the methodological framework of histoire croisée, this paper examines the bibliomigrancy of the French Caribbean author Maryse Condé. To this end, four major causal series of events leading up to her nomination and selection for the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature are analyzed. The first causal series of events consists of the translation bibliomigrancy of French Caribbean fiction to Sweden over the past 40 years. The second causal series of events briefly covers the authorship of Maryse Condé and her reception in Sweden. The third causal series follows the effects and repercussions of the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018, as well as the particular consequences related to the reorganization of the Royal Swedish Academy. The fourth causal series of events entails the foundation of the “New Academy” and the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature. Closing remarks discuss Maryse Condé’s chances of being awarded the regular Nobel Prize in Literature.

Keywords: Maryse Condé, the Alternative Nobel Prize of Literature, histoire croisée, Caribbean translation bibliomigration, double consecration
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • French Caribbean translation bibliomigrancy to Sweden
  • The literary production and translation bibliomigrancy of Maryse Condé
  • The Royal Swedish Academy and the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2018
  • The New Academy
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.163.08lin
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