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The Institut Ramon Llul will award a prize of € 4,000 for a literary translation from Catalan. The nominated translation has to be the work of one translator and have been published in 2017.
Deadline: 7 June 2018
Details (in Catalan) can be found here. […]
CEATL’s General Meeting adopted 10 May 2018 its Guidelines for fair contracts as a tool for establishing good practices in the literary translation sector. These guidelines are built on the hexalogue for good practice published by CEATL in May 2011. […]
The Basque Institute will concede grants for the translation of
written literary works originally published in Basque into other languages.
written literary works originally published in Spanish by authors resident in the Basque Autonomous Community into other languages (except Basque). […]
StradeLab, a cultural association linked with SLC-Strade, is organising ‘Laboratorio Nordico – Translating the North’, the first peer-to-peer seminar for literary translators from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish into Italian. The seminar is funded by the Danish Arts Foundation, Icelandic Literature Center, Norla and the Swedish Arts Council. […]
Since 2015, Translation House Looren has been running its ‘Laboratorio italiano’ programme, focusing on Switzerland’s third national language.
Following the major success of the first three years with both translators and local audiences,
Translation House Looren and its partners have decided to continue the project into the year 2021. […]
“It’s easy to say what a bad translation is. The ones that are accidentally jagged like the person wielding the scissors was drunk. The ones where someone has misunderstood the original, or perhaps misinterpreted it. The ones where all individuality has been smoothed out. But how do we identify a successful translation? When have we done our job well? What is it we want to achieve, beyond mere fluidity?” […]
This year, the annual meeting of the CEATL will take place in Copenhagen, and as part of this gathering, the delegates and the general public are invited to a special edition of the literary event The Red Couch. […]