Tags: EuropeOn 9 October 2014, at the Frankfurt Book Fair and on the initiative of Vincent Monadé, President of the Centre national du livre (France), several directors of European organizations in the publishing field signed the first common declaration in favour of...
Tags: GermanyOn 9 October the Paul Celan Prize 2014 was awarded to Gerhard Meier. Meier (b.1957) was honoured for his corpus of translations from French and Turkish into German. Works he has translated include novels by Amin Maalouf, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Murathan...
Tags: EuropeOn 16 and 17 October in Utrecht, organisations from six European countries initiated a programme for the development of a reference framework for the education and training of literary translators. For the first time, European teachers came together to...
Tags: TurkeyThe Turkish Association of Translators (ÇEVBİR) lost a friend and colleague, Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, in the resistance movement in Kobanê (Syria). Ağırnaslı (30) studied sociology at the Bosporus University in Istanbul. In 2011 he received his MA degree...
Tags: CroatiaTo mark International Translation Day, the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association held its annual awards ceremony. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Mate Maras, translator from English, French, Italian, Macedonian, Old English, Old French and...
