La recepción de Pauline Gedge en España. Retos léxicos en la traducción española de El faraón

Pauline Gedge (1945- ) is a New Zealand author of historical novels. She is best known for her fiction novels set in ancient Egypt. Her books have won several prizes and thousands of readers worldwide. This paper proposes a study of the reception of her second novel on Ancient Egypt, The Twelfth Transforming. The selection of this work is due to it being focused on the period of Egyptian history more widely known among the public, that is, the end of the 18th dynasty, in the New Egyptian Kingdom. Thus, the extent to which Spain is a recipient of texts related to Ancient Egypt will be explored. Furthermore, a more detailed study of the translation of the specialized lexicon of The Twelfth Transforming will be conducted, so as to highlight the particularities of the translation of the English novel into Spanish. In short, the aim of this publication is to offer a panoramic view of the novel as a reflection of the author’s interests, as a historical novel in a niche market, and as a translated text—with especial emphasis on the specialized documentation that the production of a version in another language entails.