This study examines the translation of linguocultural realia in literary prose through a comparative analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly” and Abdulla Qahhor’s “Anor.” It investigates translation procedures and strategies applied when transferring culture-specific items between English and Uzbek. The findings reveal that domestication strategies dominate when rendering English realia into Uzbek, while foreignization is preferred for translating Uzbek realia into English, particularly for ethnographic and symbolic realia. This research highlights the importance of cultural mediation in literary translation and provides practical recommendations for translators working between typologically distant languages.

Realia, literary translation, domestication

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