Abstract
In this chapter Mansell analyzes the case of Pearse Hutchinson, an Irish poet and translator who first moved to Barcelona in the 1950s and fell in love with the Catalan language and Catalan literature. As his work progressed, Hutchinson proactively approached authors, publishers and media figures, and organised cultural events in Catalan when such things were outlawed by Franco’s repressive dictatorship. In short, he became an example of a translator who does far more than translate, and through extensive archival research Mansell was able to determine why he did this, how his activity was received at the time, and what legacy his work left behind.
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For correspondence, I used the following data fields: title (if present); author; recipient; contributor (often for any attached document); date; keywords; notes; the archive the document was from, and its location. For other documents, such as manuscripts and drafts , I used: title; author; translator; contributor; abstract; date; place; no. of pages; the archive the document was from, and its location. Zotero (http://www.zotero.org) enables manual entry of bibliographic data, as well as automatic acquisition from ISBNs and DOIs. The descriptive fields are easily customised.
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This is part of the phenomenon of the Long Tail (Anderson 2009), which I have recently applied to the market for translated literature (Mansell Forthcoming). Following this model, very few titles, writers or translators produce the vast majority of market value. The anecdotal split is often 80:20, yet in the case of Catalan literature in English 1975–2015, 20% of translations are produced by just 4% of translators, and 10% of translations by just two people (David H Rosenthal and Peter Bush ).
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The book is a tribute to Carner from 72 authors (Various 1959).
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Mansell, R. (2018). Translators of Catalan as Activists During the Franco Dictatorship. In: Boase-Beier, J., Fisher, L., Furukawa, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75753-7_26
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