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This article examines the depiction of two different professions in the Swedish novel V & aring;rd, skola och omsorg (Healthcare, schools, and social services, 2021) by Linn Spross. The narrator-protagonist quits her job as postdoctoral researcher at a prestigious university and begins working as a home care aide. The novel's chapters alternate between these two work environments, implicitly inviting the reader to compare and contrast them. The article analyzes the novel in relation to the genres of campus fiction and quit lit, showing how conventions from both contribute to the novel's critique of academic working conditions.

This forum examines the translation of English literature into Russian during the early Soviet period, offering case studies of how a diverse cohort of translators, editors, scholars, and writers-including Maxim Gorky, Nikolai Gumilev, D. S. Mirsky, Mikhail Morozov, Boris Pasternak, Gustav Shpet, and Alexander Smirnov-worked to bring to Soviet readers classic and contemporary works by English authors, such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Coleridge, William Shakespeare, and Laurence Sterne. The four articles in the forum offer new insights into the politics and practices of literary translation as a highly productive form of cultural mediation in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. The articles also contribute to a new subfield within translation studies that analyzes archival materials, such as translators' correspondence and translation drafts, in order to gain a better understanding of various processes of translation.

This forum examines the translation of English literature into Russian during the early Soviet period, offering case studies of how a diverse cohort of translators, editors, scholars, and writers—including Maxim Gorky, Nikolai Gumilev, D. S. Mirsky, Mikhail Morozov, Boris Pasternak, Gustav Shpet, and Alexander Smirnov—worked to bring to Soviet readers classic and contemporary works by English authors, such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Coleridge, William Shakespeare, and Laurence Sterne. The four articles in the forum offer new insights into the politics and practices of literary translation as a highly productive form of cultural mediation in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. The articles also contribute to a new subfield within translation studies that analyzes archival materials, such as translators’ correspondence and translation drafts, in order to gain a better understanding of various processes of translation.

This chapter surveys the diverse landscape of literary translingualism in the Nordic region. A brief overview of contemporary language situations in the Nordic countries is followed by an examination of translingual aspects of the work of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edith Södergran, Karen Blixen, and Kjartan Fløgstad. The subsequent sections discuss trends in Nordic literary translingualism from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing in particular on postcolonial contexts, minority literatures, and migration. The chapter concludes with a consideration of how works by Tomas Tranströmer, Caroline Bergvall, and Cia Rinne invite translingual readings.

Denna artikel analyserar gestaltningen av flerspråkighet i den finlandssvenska författaren Zinaida Lindéns roman För många länder sedan (2013). Huvudpersonen är en berest rysk diplomathustru i Åbo som i början på 2000-talet berättar om sin erfarenhet av olika språk och kulturer. Romanen är skriven på svenska men ett stort antal andra språk förekommer indirekt i den fiktiva världen. Med hjälp av begreppen transmesis och transfiction undersöks läsarens möte med texten med fokus på effekterna av de språkliga diskrepanser som finns mellan textens och den fiktiva världens språk. Jagberättaren tolkas som en översättarfigur, som förmedlar en flerspråkig värld till svenskspråkiga läsare. Artikeln visar hur språkliga diskrepanser bidrar till romanens transkulturella tematik och skapar en metanivå som utmanar läsaren att reflektera över språket som fenomen och människans förhållande till det.

This article analyses the depiction of multilingualism in the Finland-Swedish author Zinaida Lindén’s novel Förmånga länder sedan (Many Countries Ago, 2013). The protagonist-narrator is a well-travelled Russian diplomat’swife in Turku in the early twenty-first century who relates her experiences of different languages and cultures. Thenovel is written in Swedish, but several other languages appear within the fictional world. Drawing on the conceptsof transmesis and transfiction, the analysis considers the effects in the novel of language discrepancies between thefictional world and the level of the text. The narrator is viewed as a translator figure who mediates a multilingualworld for Swedophone readers. The article shows how language discrepancies in the novel contribute to its transculturaltheme and serve to create a meta-level that challenges readers to reflect on the role of language and our perceptionsof it.