Literature and Translation in Hungary’s Cultural Heritage

The project’s broader areas of interest include: methodological issues of writing translator biographies; the curation and processing of translators’ archival estates; the methodological challenges of writing translation history; the traces of translation in institutional archives; and the translation programs of world literature book series and literary journals.

Within the project, the Hungarian Historical Lexicon of Literary Translators—abbreviated as FordLEX—is being developed. It is a digital knowledge base that aims to map and revisit the history of Hungarian literary translation through translators’ life trajectories, decisions, and mediating roles. The lexicon contains biographical, thematic, and institutional entries, along with structured data and a systematically organized bibliography linked to the entries.