Jan Ivarsson

Jan Ivarsson (born 1931) is a Swedish translation scholar specialised in the field of audiovisual translation.

Life

Ivarsson studied mathematics, physics, literature, Scandinavian languages and English at

Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel and from 1963 to 1970 he taught Swedish language and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He later taught from 1965 until 1970 at the École Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs in Paris and worked in a number of Paris theatres. From 1970 to 1978 he was General Secretary of the Swedish cultural centre in Paris.^[2]

He returned to Sweden in 1978 and worked as a subtitler in Stockholm in film and television, particularly for the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). He became head of programming with a specialty in drama. He worked with ScanTitling/Cavena on a new computerized time-coded subtitling system at SVT. He retired in 1995 and moved to the coastal town of Simrishamn in southern Sweden where he continued to work as a freelance translator and subtitler.

Work

Ivarsson has translated song lyrics, drama, television programmes and books from French, German and English into Swedish. In 1992 he published Subtitling for the Media – A Handbook of an Art and in 1998 he and Mary Carroll published the influential textbook Subtitling. His 'Short Technical History of Subtitles in Europe' remains one of the few scholarly sources on the history of subtitling and has been widely cited.

From 1992 to 1996 he collaborated with the Language Transfer of the European Institute for the Media working group and in 1995 he was a founding member of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), of which he was for some years Vice-President.

Award

The

Mary Carroll (2012) and the audiovisual translation studies scholar Jorge Díaz Cintas (2014).^[3]

Selected publications

Subtitling for the Media. A Handbook of an Art. Stockholm, Transedit, 1992

Subtitling. Simrishamn, Transedit, 1998

A short technical history of subtitles in Europe. Online at http://www.transedit.se/history.htm Archived 29 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine

References

^ "About myself". Ivarsson's personal website. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
^ Ivarsson, Jan. "personal website". Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
^ "Jan Ivarsson Award – Esist". www.esist.org. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

External links

Official website (archived)
Jan Ivarsson Award at European Association for Studies in Screen Translation

[1] "About myself". Ivarsson's personal website. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

[2] Ivarsson, Jan. "personal website". Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

[3] "Jan Ivarsson Award – Esist". www.esist.org. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

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