Shortlist for International Literary Translation Initiative Award announced

Mar 26, 2015 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe London Book Fair, in partnership with the UK Publishers Association, has announced the shortlists for International Excellence Awards 2015 in 18 categories of international publishing. Candidates for the International Literary Translation...

Call for applications: Workshop for translators of German children’s and young people’s literature (23-28 August 2015, Hamburg)

Mar 26, 2015 | Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Tags: Austria, Germany, SwitzerlandFrom 23 to 28 August 2015 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V) will host the sixth annual workshop on the translation of German literature for children and...

English PEN marks decade of supporting literature in translation

Mar 18, 2015 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomEnglish PEN’s Writers in Translation programme is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a nationwide programme of events beginning on the evening of 18 March with a launch at Foyles bookshop in London. The programme will include events dedicated...

Spanish assocation ACE Traductores opposes Penguin Random House pay cuts

Mar 13, 2015 | Spain

Tags: SpainOne of our members, the association ACE Traductores from Spain, let us know the following. On 10 February 2015 Penguin Random House publishing group informed translators that the rates paid would be decreased from 16 February 2015, and that such an...

CEATL’s opinion on Julia Reda’s report

Mar 9, 2015 | Europe

Tags: EuropePRESS RELEASE Brussels, 6 March, 2015 Representing 10,000 literary translators in 29 European countries, CEATL (European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations) has released a document stating its opinion on Julia Reda’s draft report on the...