Translating for Children
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Translators occupy a privileged position when translating works written for a young audience as they are simultaneously ideal readers and authors of the target texts. The apparently easy task of translating children’s literature relies on the translator’s responsibility to keep the author of the source text and the readership in mind. If we consider children’s literature as an opportunity for young readers to shape their own image of the world and – with reference to youth literature – reflect on their identity, translations can nurture a silent dialogue between the reader and the book during reading. T his paper outlines the position of children’s literature in academia and the shared multidisciplinary dimension with translation in order to discuss the value of translations and the role of translators as responsible for nurturing a narrative dialogue with young readers.
Source: Libri et Liberi
Author: Claudia Alborghetti
Institution: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413872441