Abstract
Thepurposeofthepresentessayistwofold.Firstly,itaimstosystematize information concerning the translation and reception of British women authors’ short fiction in Portugal from approximately 1980 onwards. Secondly, it considers the question of the translation and reception of Portuguese women authors’ short fiction in the United Kingdom during the same period. This essay will follow a comparative approach, focusing on the exchanges between the two cultural and literary systems under analysis–British and Portuguese. It will address the following questions: who are the women writers and which works are selected for translation?; which publishing houses have had a key role in promoting British and Portuguese women authors in translation?
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