Figures & data
Table 1. Composition of the dataset by source language.
Table 2. Top 25 Nordic crime writers by number of translation events.
Figure 4. Scatter plot of Nordic crime writers (n = 408) per source language: number of translations and number of languages translated into.
![Figure 4. Scatter plot of Nordic crime writers (n = 408) per source language: number of translations and number of languages translated into.](/cms/asset/a40c86df-500e-4db9-ba20-cee0c51ddac9/rtrs_a_2333737_f0004_oc.jpg)
Table 3. Three subsets of Nordic crime writers divided per source language.
Table 4. Number of translation events and share of database per target language (and with all languages with a share below 1% collapsed into “Other languages”).
Figure 5. Translations of Nordic Noir for all target languages with over 2% of the translations in the NNTD and with Nordic languages excluded: count per five-year period, 2000-2019.
![Figure 5. Translations of Nordic Noir for all target languages with over 2% of the translations in the NNTD and with Nordic languages excluded: count per five-year period, 2000-2019.](/cms/asset/06b57c1a-0d16-4f86-b88c-2ed8fbd85e99/rtrs_a_2333737_f0005_oc.jpg)
Figure 6. Translations of Nordic Noir for target languages originating outside or at the borders of Europe (and with languages <10 translation events collapsed): count per five-year period, 2000-2019.
![Figure 6. Translations of Nordic Noir for target languages originating outside or at the borders of Europe (and with languages <10 translation events collapsed): count per five-year period, 2000-2019.](/cms/asset/af0efbec-830a-447f-b62e-db0ad40db403/rtrs_a_2333737_f0006_oc.jpg)
Figure 7. Translations of Nordic Noir to Nordic languages: source language count per five-year period.
![Figure 7. Translations of Nordic Noir to Nordic languages: source language count per five-year period.](/cms/asset/4d8fdff5-5a17-4f72-a7a7-bc58ac9a0e9b/rtrs_a_2333737_f0007_oc.jpg)
Figure 8. Translations of Nordic Noir to Nordic languages: target language count per five-year period.
![Figure 8. Translations of Nordic Noir to Nordic languages: target language count per five-year period.](/cms/asset/777a2818-634c-44d8-9d85-fb3f36c61fa9/rtrs_a_2333737_f0008_oc.jpg)
Table 5. Outbound versus inbound translations for the Nordic languages: count and ratio 2000-2020.
Data availability statement
The data on which this study is based, “Nordic Noir in Translation Database”, has been peer reviewed and made publicly available by the Post45 Data Collective at https://data.post45.org/the-nordic-noir-in-translation-database-2000-2020/. See Berglund, Gulddal, and King (Citation2024).