Guide book of grants for translation of fiction and non-fiction now available

May 29, 2015 | Italy, World

Tags: Italy, WorldBooksinItaly, a portal on Italian publishing, has launched a new initiative: Premi e incentivi alle traduzioni 2015. This guide book, edited by the Italian Publishers’ Association and the magazine Il Giornale della Libreria, presents a complete...

Translation slam with Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall on text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio) (Milan, 5 June 2015)

May 28, 2015 | Italy

Tags: ItalyOn the occasion of the annual assembly of CEATL, the Italian translators associations AITI and STradE will organise a translation slam from Italian to English based on an unpublished text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio). Contenders in this public event will be...

The 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize to Jenny Erpenbeck and Susan Bernofsky

May 28, 2015 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been awarded to Jenny Erpenbeck and Susan Bernofsky for The End of Days, the first translation from German to win since 2002. The prize of £10,000 is shared equally between author and translator,...

Man Booker International Prize to Hungarian writer Krasznahorkai and his translators Szirtes and Mulzet

May 23, 2015 | Hungary, United Kingdom

Tags: Hungary, United KingdomThe Man Booker International Prize has been awarded, in a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, the first non-anglophone author to win since Ismail Kadaré in 2005. The prize, worth...

PRESS RELEASE on the European Commission’s strategy for a Digital Single Market

May 21, 2015 |

Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, 20 May 2015 Representing more than 10,000 literary translators in 29 European countries, CEATL (Conseil européen des associations de traducteurs littéraires) has read with interest the communication published by the European...