Cittautu literatūras tulkojumi trimdā 20. gs. 40.–50. gados
Translations of Foreign Literature by Latvian Exiles in the 1940s and 1950s

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore the ways in which Latvians in exile after the Second World War continued the existing tradition of translating and publishing world literature, which publishing houses and translators were the most productive, which authors were published most often, and how they were received in the émigré society. The range of translations was particularly wide and diverse in the 1940s and 1950s when a total of 265 books were published, of which eight were poetry and four were plays, with fiction accounting for the rest. During this period, a total of 27 translations of different authors were published. German authors were most widely represented (30), followed by French (27), Estonian and American (26 each), Norwegian and Swedish (23 each) authors. The publishers accounting for most of these were Grāmatu draugs and Tilts in the United States, Daugava in Stockholm, and Imanta in Copenhagen. In the 1940s and 1950s, authors whose books could never be published in Soviet-occupied Latvia (James Joyce, George Orwell, Albert Camus et al.) were published outside its borders. Yet the publishers in exile had to pay attention to the rather conservative tastes of the majority of their readership and its reservations about works created in the Soviet Union (e.g., Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak).

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