Obituary
In Memoriam Gideon Toury (1942–2016)

Dirk Delabastita, Sandra Halverson, José Lambert and Kirsten Malmkjær
University of Namur | Høgskulen på Vestlandet | Universidade Federal do Cearà | University of Leicester
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Like many colleagues in all corners of the world, we were deeply saddened by the news of the death of Gideon Toury on October 4, 2016. He was many things to many people. We have known him in several contexts and capacities, too, but as the current editors of Target, we are perhaps most keenly aware of the key role he played in establishing the journal and taking it forward for the first two decades of its existence. The pioneering and inspirational force of his work is among the themes evoked in the tributes below by fellow founding editor José Lambert and by Kirsten Malmkjær, who joined the editorial team in 2000.

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