Since 2007 Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium Straelen (EUK) has been organising seminars for well-known German-writing authors and their translators. The meetings offer the opportunity to discuss the author’s most recent book and the difficulties in translating them. […]
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Literary translation workshops (English, French and Norwegian into Italian) and editing workshops for translators (Fosdinovo, 22-24 July 2018)
From 22-24 July 2018 the sixth event in the ‘Traduttori in Movimento’ series will take place at Fosdinovo Castle in Italy. The programme offers workshops for translators from English, French and Norwegian into Italian and a translation editing workshop. Translators from Italian into another language may also participate as observers. […]
ESLT Summer School 2018 ‘Training the Teacher of Literary Translation’ (Rome, 11-14 September 2018)
From 11 – 14 September 2018 the European School of Literary Translation will organise its second Summer school. The Summer school, which will take place at Link Campus University, will bring together 20 translators and educators from across Europe and is aimed at literary translators (at any stage of their career) who are keen to develop their teaching skills and find out about innovations in the field. […]
Italian Translators’ Association STRADE addresses AmazonCrossing with an open letter
A panel on how to become a literary translator, organised by Amazon Publishing on 10 March 2018 within the Milan book fair ‘Tempo di Libri’, was the occasion for Italian translators’ associations to follow up on a dialogue with AmazonCrossing about their contracts with translators.
This dialogue started in 2014, after a European campaign involving VdÜ, Strade, ATLF and CEATL. A meeting between the parties was organized at the 2014 Frankfurt book fair. This meeting brought some improvements in AmazonCrossing’s standard translation contract and the parties left with an agreement to continue discussions as CEATL still didn’t deem it satisfactory. […]