Changing the Landscape: Diversity and Translated Fiction in the UK Publishing Industry

改变景观：英国出版业的多样性和翻译小说汇集了出版业内的学者和利益相关者，以反思和挑战英国翻译小说的委托和制作中的偏见。我们将讨论如何在性别、地缘政治和其他交叉特征方面确保更大的、可持续的代表性多样性，这些特征可能会使作家边缘化，阻止他们的声音被听到。在销售和增长方面，翻译小说已经开始超过出版业的其他行业，但报告显示，尽管有许多冒险的举措，特别是来自独立出版社的举措，出版业的多样性已经趋于稳定。在2020年之前，在解决翻译文学缺乏多样性的问题上取得了一些重大进展（特别是小型独立出版社），但创意产业受到大流行病的影响不成比例，如果不采取措施支持代表性的多样性，它们有可能恢复到一种更加规避风险的状态。创新的翻译小说为英国经济和文化多样性带来了深远的利益：作为文化之间直接接触的一种形式，翻译是国际理解的重要工具，英国的翻译小说吸引了海外文化组织和政府的直接资助。作为该网络核心的多样性和平等价值观对于英国成为国际创意产业的先锋至关重要，但也有充分的证据表明，这一流行病可能对妇女和其他边缘化群体产生更大的不利影响，因此确保可见度、代表性和机会的平等至关重要。我们对英国翻译文学行业的研究是与英国笔会合作开发的，英国笔会是一个全球作家协会，也是英国最大的英语翻译资助机构。反过来，我们的研究和网络活动将扩大英语笔会的使命，通过推进纠正翻译文学出版不平等的长期战略来促进多样性。我们网络的核心优势在于它将在学术研究和创意产业之间建立多重联系，并通过扩展它将收集翻译文学行业内多样性挑战的多个视角。特别是，该网络的发展汇集了四个关键组成部分，以弥合学术和行业背景：（1）网络参与者的各种专业知识，他们在出版和文学翻译的一系列领域工作;（2）项目合作伙伴对促进多样性的承诺;（3）PI的翻译女性活动家项目及其相关研究，重点是挑战翻译文学选择、生产和呈现中的交叉偏见;（4）国际笔会通过设立沃里克女性翻译奖，动员人们在翻译文学中实现性别平等。该网络开展的工作将直接支持英语笔会翻译文学计划和笔会翻译计划的发展（英国翻译文学的主要资金来源），以及网络核心产出的发展：数字出版倡议PEN Presents，两份行业报告，与主要利益相关者的访谈系列，将提供关于前进方向的不同观点，以及PI和CI共同撰写的一篇学术文章，分析了该网络对挑战出版业偏见的贡献。

Changing the Landscape: Diversity and Translated Fiction in the UK Publishing Industry brings together academics and stakeholders within the publishing industry to reflect on and challenge bias in the commission and production of translated fiction in the UK. We will discuss how to secure greater - and sustainable - diversity of representation in terms of gender, geopolitics, and other intersecting characteristics that can marginalise writers and prevent their voices from being heard.In terms of sales and growth, translated fiction has begun to outpace the rest of the publishing industry, yet reports show that despite many risk-taking initiatives, particularly from independent presses, diversity in publishing has plateaued. Before 2020 a number of significant advances had been made towards addressing the lack of diversity in translated literature (particularly by the smaller independent presses), but the creative industries have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, and there is a danger that they could revert to a more risk-averse state if measures are not taken to support diversity of representation. Innovative translated fiction offers far-reaching benefits for the UK both economically and in terms of cultural diversity: as a form of direct contact between cultures, translation is a vital tool for international understanding, and translated fiction in the UK attracts direct funding from overseas cultural organisations and governments. The values of diversity and equality at the heart of this network are vital for the UK to be at the vanguard of the international creative industries, yet it has also been well documented that the pandemic is likely to have a greater adverse effect on women and other marginalised groups, and so it is crucial to ensure equality of visibility, representation, and opportunity.To this end, our research on the translated literature industry in the UK is developed alongside and informed by our partnership with English PEN, a worldwide writers' association and the largest funding body in the UK for translation into English. In turn, our research and network activities will amplify English PEN's mission to foster diversity by advancing long-term strategies for redressing inequalities in the publishing of translated literature. The core strength of our network lies in the multiple links it will make between academic research and creative industries, and by extension the multiple perspectives it will gather on the diversity challenges within the translated literature industry. In particular, the development of this network brings together four key components to bridge academic and industry contexts: (1) the various strands of expertise of the network participants, who work across a range of areas within publishing and literary translation; (2) the project partner's commitment to fostering diversity; (3) the PI's activist Translating Women project and her related research, which focus on challenging intersectional bias in the selection, production and presentation of translated literature; and (4) the CI's mobilisation for gender equality in translated literature through the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.The work carried out by the network will directly support the development of English PEN's translated literature programme and the PEN Translates scheme (the primary source of funding for translated literature in the UK), as well as the development of the core outputs of the network: the digital publishing initiative PEN Presents, two industry reports, an interview series with the key stakeholders that will offer diverse perspectives on ways forward, and an academic article co-authored by the PI and CI analysing the network's contribution to challenging bias within the publishing industry.