Swedish reviews of post-Soviet Russian novels published in Swedish translation 1992-2020

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• Malin Podlevskikh Carlström - University of Gothenburg

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Swedish reviews of first editions of post-Soviet Russian novels published in Swedish translation 1992-2020

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The review database includes reviews published in newspapers as well as non-specialized journals and magazines (both online and print). Two Swedish media databases, Svenska Dagstidningar and Mediearkivet, have been used to locate reviews for the 82 post-Soviet novels. In total 669 reviews were identified, of which 430 were included in the review corpus. The reviews not included in the corpus are indicated with red text color. The analyses based on this data focus on how critics discuss translations, and therefore only independent reviews (not combinations of a review and an author interview) have been included in the review corpus. Furthermore, only one review per critic and novel have been included in the corpus. In cases when a critic has sent versions of the same review to different newspapers, publication date (earliest) and in some cases review availability (in full-text database) have determined which review was included. Finally, a few very short reviews without reflection have not been included in the corpus.

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Information about reviews published in national and regional Swedish media sources.

Department of Languages and Literatures

• Humanities and the arts
• Studies of specific literatures
• Other humanities not elsewhere specified

• Translation reception
• Russian literature
• Russian fiction
• Translating and interpreting
• Literary reviews
• Translation criticism