Positive note in Dutch Cultural Policy 2018 – 2021

Mar 28, 2018 | Netherlands

Tags: NetherlandsOn 12 March 2018, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, presented the Cultural Policy for 2018 to 2021. Two positive points stand out: after years of austerity, the government will start making investments in...

Negotiations on new contract follow successful talks between the Swedish Writers’ Union and the Bonnier Publishing Group

Mar 26, 2018 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenIn late November last year the Translators’ section of the Swedish Writers’ Union recommended its members to not sign any new deals with the Bonnier Group. The Swedish Standard Contract was cancelled last summer and in late autumn Bonnier had presented a...

Three cases of plagiarism in Bulgaria

Mar 23, 2018 | Bulgaria

Tags: BulgariaIn the past year the Bulgarian Translators’ Union (BTU) has dealt with a number of cases of translation plagiarism. Last March Prof. Ana Dimova, literary translator and BTU member, published an article entitled The (Un)known Joseph Roth: Translation or...

Bulgarian Translators’ Union honours translator Iglika Vassileva

Mar 23, 2018 | Bulgaria

Tags: BulgariaAt the end of 2017 the Bulgarian Translators’ Union organised an evening dedicated to literary translator Iglika Vassileva and her interpretation of the works of Virginia Woolf in Bulgarian. It was the twentieth anniversary of the first...

Call for application: Workshop for translators of German children’s and young people’s literature (deadline: 2 May 2018)

Mar 21, 2018 | Germany

Tags: GermanyFrom 12 to 17 August 2018 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V.) and Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (German Translators Fund) will host the ninth annual workshop on the translation of...