ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS: 1845-2023 Cover Image

LITERATURA ROMÂNĂ ȘI TRADUCERILE ÎN LIMBA BULGARĂ: 1845-2023
ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS: 1845-2023

Author(s): Luiza Marinescu
Subject(s): Fiction, Romanian Literature, Philology, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Romanian literature; Bulgarian translations and tranlators; Bulgarian School of Romanian Literature Translators from Sofia; Rumiana Stancheva; Vasilka Aleksova; Lora Georgieva Nenkovska;

Summary/Abstract: Translation from Romanian literature in Bulgaria is the result of the passion with which the Romanian language was taught in the university environment, especially at the St. Kliment Ohridsky University in Sofia and especially of the talent and toil with which the Bulgarian Romanians specialized scholars from here created the Bulgarian versions of the masterpieces of Romanian literature and not only. In this article, resulting from the research in the catalogue of the National Library in Sofia, I was interested in finding Bulgarian equivalents of the works of Romanian authors who are part of the teaching curriculum of Romanian literature in the high school with teaching in Romanian Mihai Eminescu High School in Sofia and in the one of teaching Romanian literature at University St. Kliment Ohridsky in Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria Most of the translations from Romanian literature into Bulgarian are the result of scientific research carried out by professors from the Department of Language and Literature Romanian at the University of St. Kliment Ohridsky in Sofia or what could rightly be called by word the School of translators of Romanian language in Sofia. Bulgaria- and Sofia in particular- is one of the privileged places where, along with the department of Romanian language and literature, a Romanian lecturer was established by the Institute of the Romanian Language in Bucharest. In order to promote the Romanian language, literature and culture abroad through translations by Bulgarian translators, simply in love with Romanian literature and the explosion of talent and originality of Romanian creators, knowledge, study, attention and gratitude are always needed. The great university libraries in Romania, including the National Library, do not provide updated data on the translations of Romanian literature into Bulgarian and it is a great pity, because it covers by ignoring a very interesting achievement, mentioned on the occasion of the International Fair in Sofia in December 2021 by Her Excellency, the Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Bulgaria Brândușa Predescu: Bulgaria is the second largest country in the European Union in terms of translations of Romanian culture after Spain.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 417-438
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian