Carpintero, Rafael Istanbul University - Department of Spanish Language and Culture, Turkey

TURKISH LITERATURE PUBLISHED IN SPAIN (1954-2010)

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This article traces the publication of Turkish literature in Spain from 1954, the date of the first Turkish book that was translated into Spanish, to 2010. The study was carried out as empirically as possible with data that was collected from various sources. The sources of references therefore, include the databanks with empirical data, bibliographies and catalogues. There have been several challenges in the data collection process: It was extremely difficult to trace and detect the Turkish books in data banks as well as tracing the language they were translated from into Spanish since there was neither any indication of the country of origin for the publication nor the original name of the book. The steps that followed the data collection were the detection of the source language and culture, the intermediary language of the translation and the original names of the books. Although Turkish literature did not have a significant place in the Spanish culture between 1954 and 2010, a slowly increasing interest is being observed in the last decade. Two major problems that prevail are the lack of translators to translate from Turkish into Spanish and a guidebook for publishers to inform them about the books that are worth being translated.

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Turkish literature , translations into Spanish , translation bibliography , editorial world in Spain

Iu Journal Of Translation Studies

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