IndirecTrans
Dedicated to bringing together research on indirect translation
Background information
Martin Ringmar has worked as a journalist and translator (chiefly from Icelandic into Swedish), but since the mid 1990s mostly as a teacher of Swedish to foreigners. He has worked as a lecturer in Swedish at universities in Riga (Latvia), Rennes (France) and is currently teaching Swedish (and Icelandic) at Univerzita Komenského in Bratislava (Slovakia).
Research interests
indirect translation
the Nordic translation system
translators’ biographies
Main ultimate source language (USL) and ultimate target language (UTL) in indirect translation research
The Nordic languages (USL and UTL)
Selected publications
Ringmar, Martin. 2007. ”’Roundabout Routes’. Some remarks on indirect translations.” In F. Mus (ed.): Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2006. (Link)
Ringmar, Martin. 2008. ”Von indirekten zu direkten Beziehungen im finnisch-isländischen Literaturaustausch”. trans-kom. Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation 1(2): 164–79: (Link)
Ringmar, Martin. 2012. ”Relay Translation”. In Y. Gambier & L. van Doorslaer (ed.), Handbook of Translation Studies. Volum 3, 154-157. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ringmar, Martin. 2013. ”Indirekt översättning”. In Svenskt översättarlexikon (Link)
Ringmar, Martin. 2014. ”The vicissitudes of (after-)life. Salka Valka in the Nordic translation system 1934–2008”. In Á. Eysteinsson et al. (ed.): Nordic Responses. Translation, History, Literary Culture, 69-87. Oslo: Novus Press.
Ringmar, Martin. 2015. ”Figuring out the local within the global – (sub)systems and indirect translation”. Special Issue of IberoSlavica 2015: :153-170. (Link)
