Self-translation occurs in various writing situations. Since research on self-translation largely focuses on literary self-translation, this article will tend to have a similar focus.

The practice of self-translation has attracted critical attention especially since the beginning of this century, in the wake of intensive investigation into the field of non-authorial translation in the twentieth century. Literary self-translation has been recognized as a special branch of translation studies at least since the publication of the first edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies in 1998.

Contents

• 1Research
• 2Types of self-translation
• 3Factors that encourage self-translation
• 4Self-translation versus non-authorial translation
• 5History
• 6Self-translators
  • 6.1Africa
  • 6.2Canada
  • 6.3China
  • 6.4France
  • 6.5India
  • 6.6Italy
  • 6.7Spain
  • 6.8United Kingdom
  • 6.9United States
• 7In music
• 8Further reading
  • 8.1Non-literary self-translation
  • 8.2Literary self-translation
• 9See also
• 10References
• 11External links