Background
Gillian Lathey was born on May 28, 1949, in Morley, England, United Kingdom.
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Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
In 1971 Gillian Lathey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London. In 1976 she also obtained a Master of Arts degree from the same university.
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In 1997 Gillian Lathey gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Surrey.
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Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
In 1971 Gillian Lathey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London. In 1976 she also obtained a Master of Arts degree from the same university.
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Stag Hill, University Campus, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
In 1997 Gillian Lathey gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Surrey.
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The Impossible Legacy: Identity and Purpose in Autobiographical Children's Literature Set in the Third Reich and the Second World War
(This comparative study explores purpose and identity in t...)
This comparative study explores purpose and identity in the revision of wartime childhoods by German, Jewish and British writers addressing a child or adolescent audience. Autobiographical accounts published between 1970 and 1995 form part of a general reassessment of the past which was taking place at personal and national levels. For many authors, the legacy of the war years presents narrative dilemmas. How, for example, does a German writer record the heady excitement of Hitler Youth rallies and marches in a manner which fulfills the didactic purpose expected of any book for children set in the Third Reich? Is the therapeutic purpose so evident in the work of exiled Jewish writers echoed in all accounts of childhood wartime evacuation, and is a sense of nostalgia exclusive to British texts? In passing their own stories on to the next generation, each writer's selection of content and control of narrative perspective reveal the roles of personal need and changing ideologies in recreating that «small person far away.»
https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Legacy-Autobiographical-Childrens-Literature/dp/3906760804/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Impossible+Legacy%3A+Identity+and+Purpose+in+Autobiographical+Children%27s+Literature+Set+in+the+Third+Reich+and+the+Second+World+War&qid=1600343574&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
The Translation of Children's Literature
(Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translati...)
Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translation of children's books has increased at a rapid pace. Research across a number of disciplines has contributed to developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. The purpose of this Reader is to reflect the diversity and originality of approaches to the subject by gathering together, for the first time, a range of journal articles and chapters on translation for children published during the last thirty years. From an investigation of linguistic features specific to translation for children, to accounts of the travels of international classics such as the Grimm Brothers' Household Tales or Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, to a model of narrative communication with the child reader in translated texts and, not least, the long-neglected comments of professional translators, these essays offer new insights into the challenges and difference of translating for the young.
https://www.amazon.com/Translation-Childrens-Literature-Reader-Topics/dp/1853599069/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Translating+Children%27s+Literature+Lathey&qid=1600344064&s=books&sr=1-2
2006
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature: Invisible Storytellers
(This book offers a historical analysis of key classical t...)
This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories translated from other languages have continued to shape its course to the present day.
https://www.amazon.com/Role-Translators-Childrens-Literature-Storytellers-ebook/dp/B0042FZZB8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Role+of+Translators+in+Children%E2%80%99s+Literature%3A+Invisible+Storytellers&qid=1600343664&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
Translating Children's Literature
(Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of th...)
Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books.
https://www.amazon.com/Translating-Childrens-Literature-Translation-Practices-ebook/dp/B012FWHJPE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Translating+Children%27s+Literature+Lathey&qid=1600344064&s=books&sr=1-1
2015
Gillian Lathey
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In 1971 Gillian Lathey received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London. In 1976 she obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university. In 1997 Lathey gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Surrey.
Career
From 1990 to 1997 Gillian Lathey was a senior lecturer in a language in education at the University of Surrey Roehampton (now University of Roehampton) and became a deputy director of the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature in 1999. As deputy director of the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature at the University of Roehampton, she teaches a course on translated children’s literature and continues to pursue the often puzzling cross-cultural connections in children’s literature.
Gillian's areas of expertise are the translation of children's literature and literature for children by German and Austrian exiles 1933-1945. She is also interested in the representations of national identity in children's literature.
She is a co-founder and judge of the Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. She has published The Impossible Legacy: Identity and Purpose in Autobiographical Children's Literature Set in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1999) and The Translation of Children’s Literature: A Reader (2006). Her book The Role of Translators in Children's Literature: Invisible Storytellers was published by Routledge in 2010. In 2015 Translating Children's Literature was published.
Lathey is a contributor to The Early Years: A Reader (1998); The Literate Classroom (1999); German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain: The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Volume 2 (2000); and Children’s Literature and National Identity (2001).
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Translating Children's Literature
(Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of th...)
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The Impossible Legacy: Identity and Purpose in Autobiographical Children's Literature Set in the Third Reich and the Second World War
(This comparative study explores purpose and identity in t...)
1999 -
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature: Invisible Storytellers
(This book offers a historical analysis of key classical t...)
2010 -
The Translation of Children's Literature
(Since the late 1970s, scholarly interest in the translati...)
2006
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Translating Children's Literature
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