La dynamique des traductions pour les enfants sur les marchés éditoriaux roumain et moldave après 1989. Esquisse d’une cartographie

Abstract

The main objective of our paper is to describe the dynamics of translation in children book’s production on the book market in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, in the postcommunist period. Sharing one and the same language, Romanian, these two countries had separate destinies in the 20^th century, which led to separate editorial policies until the 90s. The free book market of the postcommunist era brought along several new publishing houses which now compete in it, a metamorphosis of the book as an illustrated/multimodal object, as well as a reciprocal opening. Issues such as translation flows, translator’s and illustrator’s visibility, multimodality in children books’ translations will be addressed in the methodological frame of Translation Studies History and Criticism.

Cuvinte-cheie: cartea pentru copii, editurǎ, ilustrator, limba românǎ, literatura francezǎ, multimodalitate, piaţa editorialǎ, strategie de traducere, traducere, vizibilitatea traducǎtorului

REZUMAT

Articolul propune o analizǎ a dinamicii traducerii cǎrţilor pentru copii pe piaţa editorialǎ din România şi Republica Moldova, în perioada postcomunistǎ. Destinele separate ale celor douǎ ţǎri în secolul XX au dus la existenţa unor politici editoriale specifice pânǎ în anii 90. Liberalizarea ulterioară a pieţei de carte şi ridicarea interdicţiilor care vizau circulaţia cǎrţilor în aceste douǎ spaţii româneşti a generat apariţia a numeroase edituri, concurente pe sectorul cărţii pentru copii, o metamorfoză a cărţii pentru copii ca obiect ilustrat/multimodal dar şi o deschidere reciprocǎ a celor douǎ spaţii editoriale. Vom analiza, cu metodologia şi instrumentele specifice traductologiei, problematici precum fluxul cǎrţilor traduse, vizibilitatea traducătorului/ilustratorului, multimodalitatea cărţii traduse pentru copii.

LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION

French

TITLE IN ENGLISH

On the Dynamics of Children's Books Translation in Romania and Moldova after 1989

UDC: 81

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Received: September 2, 2025 | Reviewed: September 16, 2025 | Accepted for publication: September 30, 2025

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