Bibliographical data concerning the 5259 first editions of novels translated into Swedish 2000-2015

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• Anja Allwood - University of Gothenburg

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The 5259 novels translated into Swedish in Sweden between the years 2000 and 2015. Information given concerns: Swedish title, original language, author (and nationality), translator, year of publication and if it is a direct or indirect translation. For the 70 indirect translations it is also stated which language was the mediating language.

The dataset contains bibliographical details of all first editions of novels translated into Swedish between 2000–2015, except for novels from the Harlequin publishing company, which were all direct translations from English and therefore not relevant for the identification of indirect translations.

• 2000-01-01 - 2015-12-31

5259

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The metadata on the translations in question was extracted from the National Bibliography (Libris website, hosted by The National Library of Sweden) using a Boolean search string for each of the years in the study, e.g. STIL:f ”Första svenska uppl* 2000” år:(2000) språk:swe, for the year 2000. The material was then triangulated with information from other sources about the authors and translators. The search and its corroboration via triangulation resulted in two databases: the larger reference database of 5259 direct AND indirect translations and the main material of the study, the database consisting of the 70 indirect translations published in Sweden between 2000–2015.

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The data contains information about translations into Swedish and published by Swedish publishers. The original novels are international and were written in 27 different languages.

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