La traducción de la literatura vasca a otras lenguas

This paper offers a general overview of Basque literature in translation. Our main objective is to know what  has  been  translated  from  Basque  and  in  which  way. The  paper  will present a detailed analysis  of a catalogue of Basque  literary works in translation. We will show which are the most translated books, the most representative authors or the main target languages. The paper will show the difficulties that a minority language such as Basque has to face when being translated  into other major as well as minor languages. The analysis will show the dependency of a peripheric language on a hegemonic language and in which way this dependency is reflected in the translation process. On the one hand, we  will show that self-translation is a common activity when translating into Spanish and, on the other hand, data from the catalogue will demonstrate that indirect translation is often needed when translating into other languages.