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Nike K. Pokorn is a professor of translation studies and Chair of English in the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include the history of translation, directionality in translation, and community and health care interpreting. She is the author of several monographs, including one on translation away from one's mother tongue (Challenging the Traditional Axioms, Benjamins, 2005) and one on ideological influences on the translation of children's literature in socialist Yugoslavia (Post-Socialist Translation Practices, Benjamins, 2012). She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Ethics (2021) and general editor of the first comprehensive Slovene history of literary translation (Zgodovina slovenskega literarnega prevoda, 2023).