I’m pleased to post the second episode of the MaudCast, the podcast of the L.M. Montgomery Institute. In the MaudCast’s quest to discover innovative scholarship about the life and works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, we welcome to the microphone leading academics, emerging scholars, local researchers, and imaginative readers and writers from around the world.

My second interview is with Laura Leden. Laura is a PhD candidate in translation studies at the University of Helsinki. Laura is multilingual, with a good facility for her native Finnish, her family’s Swedish, international English, and some other languages as well. Laura working on the final stages of her thesis on adaptation in translations of girls’ fiction from English into Swedish and Finnish, including translations of Montgomery’s Emily trilogy. Swedish was actually the first international translation of Anne of Green Gables, all the way back in 1909, so this is a super fascinating topic. Alongside her PhD project, Laura has written several journal articles and book chapters on the translations of Montgomery’s books and been a regular speaker at the L.M. Montgomery conferences for the last ten years.

For today’s episode, you will want to check out Laura’s beautifully curated “L.M. Montgomery Nordic” Instagram page, where she shows various Scandinavian translations of Montgomery’s fiction, @lmmontgomerynordic (her personal Instagram account is @laurairenel and you can find her website here). Laura also has a blog post coming out tomorrow on the 2020 Vision Forum, “The Nordic Vision of L.M. Montgomery in Book Covers as Featured on Instagram,” which chapters something of the plenary talk she had intended to give live at the Montgomery conference in Prince Edward Island. See more about this podcast at the Forum, and I hope you enjoy!

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