International Translation Day e-card

Sep 30, 2014 | World

Tags: WorldToday (30 September) is the feast of St. Jerome, widely known as International Translation Day. If you want to celebrate this day, please go to our homepage and send a CEATL e-card to your friends, colleagues, publishers, literary critics etc. Happy...

The Glass Translator – ‘Weltlesebühne’ celebrates International Translation Day in Germany and beyond

Sep 24, 2014 | Germany

Tags: GermanyOn the occasion of St Jerome’s Day (30 September), ‘Weltlesebühne’, an organisation founded by members of the German Literary Translators’ Association (VdÜ),  has arranged a series of events all over Germany. In cooperation with the Robert Bosch...

‘Words Travel Worlds’, winner of CEATL’s third international video contest ‘Spot the translator’

Sep 22, 2014 | World

Tags: World‘Portraits of Literary Translators’ was the topic chosen by CEATL for the 2014 international video contest ‘Spot the Translator’, now in its third year. The contest invites artists to help make translators more visible by creating...

Farewell to Manuel Serrat Crespo

Sep 18, 2014 |

Last month, CEATL lost one of its co-founders and honorary members, the Spanish translator Manuel Serrat Crespo. His friend and colleague Peter Bergsma has written an obituary. In the early hours of Saturday 23 August, sitting at his computer – how could it have been...

Dutch translator Hans Boland refuses the Pushkin medal

Sep 17, 2014 | Netherlands, Russia

Tags: Netherlands, RussiaHans Boland, a Dutch translator of Russian literature, has refused to accept Russia’s Pushkin Medal because of his objections to President Vladimir Putin as a ‘very great danger to freedom and peace on our planet’. Established in...