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Summer school in audiovisual translation (London, 4-29 July 2016)

Summer school in audiovisual translation (London, 4-29 July 2016)

The Centre for Translation Studies at University College London will organise a summer school in audiovisual translation. This intensive course, which takes place from 4 to 29 July 2016, provides a theoretical framework for translators and researchers in the area of AVT as well as hands-on training with professional software and audiovisual material taken from different authentic contexts. […]

Summer school in audiovisual translation (London, 4-29 July 2016)

Summer Course Literary Translation in Utrecht (Deadline: 1 April 2019)

This year the Dutch Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation, in collaboration with the Dutch Foundation for Literature, is organizing a Summer Course in Literary Translation for translators from Dutch  into the target languages German (theatre) and Italian, from 26 to 30 August 2019 in Utrecht. Interested translators are cordially invited to register before Monday 1 April. […]

Strasbourg Conference: read the report!

Strasbourg Conference: read the report!

80 speakers from 28 countries, 5 roud-table panels, 7 workshops and various presentations: this one-of-a-kind event brought together for the first time all parties involved in literary translation: translators, writers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, training establishments, residencies, book festivals and fairs, and all the organisations supporting literary translation in Europe.

STRADE demands state foundation for the support of literary translation and other news from Italy

STRADE demands state foundation for the support of literary translation and other news from Italy

It has been a busy autumn for the Italian Union of Literary Translators Strade.

Starting at the beginning of October, the association was one of the main co-operating partners of the Migrant Literatures Festival in Palermo, Sicily, which hosted a series of events under the title “Lost (and Found) in Translation”. A public meeting with representatives from the Italian Ministry of Culture, the association of independent publishers ODEI, the Municipality of Palermo and Strade opened the whole festival, by promoting the latter’s proposal to establish a State foundation supporting translation (as it is the case in many other countries). ¨…*

STRADE demands state foundation for the support of literary translation and other news from Italy

Stephen Spender Prize open for entries

The 2016 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, run by the Stephen Spender Trust in association with the Guardian newspaper, is now open for entries from UK or Irish residents. There are three categories: open (adults over the age of 18), 14-18 under-14s. […]