Self-translating authors in German-language contemporary literature

The paper aims to analyse how self-translation fits into the discourse of translingual writing in German-language literature produced since the second half of the 20th century. The paper shows that the phenomenon can be conceived in different ways, along a continuum ranging from more ‘literal’ understandings to metaphorical extensions of the term. The complexity of self-translation will be examined through the example of the following authors: Carmine Abate, Franco Biondi, Zwetelina Damjanova, Sabine Eschgfäller, Gerhard Kofler, Pavel Kohout, Yüksel Pazarkaya, Barbara Pumhösel, Milan Ráček, Yoko Tawada and Vladimir Vertlib.