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In:Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 123–135

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Chapter 6
Investigating literary translators’ translatorship through narrative identity

 | Tampere University, Finland
Published online: 3 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.156.06hei
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Material and method
  • Translators’ contextualized life-stories
    • Life-story as a reader
    • Life-story about the love for one’s native language
    • Life-story as a student
    • Life-story as a writer or a mediator
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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