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In November, the Gerardo de Cremona Prizes for the promotion of translation in the Mediterranean were awarded for the first time. One of the award-winning translators is Malika Embarek, member of the Spanish association of translators ACE Traductores, which is represented in CEATL. […]
The Slovenian Association of Literary Translators awarded the 2015 Sovre Prize to the famous Slovenian translator and philologist Mojca Kranjc for her translation of the novel Der Fälscher, die Spionin und der Bombenbauer by the Swiss author Alex Capus. The translation, Švindler, špijonka in človek z bombo, was published by Mladinska knjiga in their celebrated new collection Moderni roman/Modern novel. […]
At the Writers’ Stage of the 31st Slovenian Book Fair, the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators awarded the 2015 Radojka Vrančič Prize to Andreja Kalc for Poskus sobe, the translation of a Russian novel by Marina Tsvetaeva [English title: An attempt to construct a room]. The translation was published by KUD Zrakogled, the Cultural and Art Association from Koper. […]
Matej Hriberšek, translator and professor at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has won the first edition of the Jerman prize for his translations into Slovenian of the first six books of Naturalis Historia of the Roman half-historian Pliny the Elder (published by ZRC, 2012/13) and for the translation of the autobiographical work of Baron Žiga Herberstein, Gratae Posteritati. […]
On 5-6 May a two-day conference will be held in Naples (Italy) on the topic of creativity in translation/interpretation and interpreter/translator training.
The conference will be organised by the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa (Naples, Italy) in collaboration with KU Leuven, Belgium, and the University of Western Brittany, Brest, France with the support of Assointerpreti and the Università di Salerno and the participation of Yıldız Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey). […]
On 3-4 December 2015 the University of Evry Val d’Essonne will organise an international colloquium on the untranslatable. […]
On 7 May 2015 the new Gerardo de Cremona Prizes for the promotion of translation in the Mediterranean were launched by the School of Translators of Toledo (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Human Sciences and Islamic Studies (Casablanca, Morocco), the MED 21 Programme – Network Awards for promotion of Excellence and Cooperation in the Mediterranean, and the City Council of Cremona (Italy). The aim of these prizes is to honor annually the significant contributions in the field of translation (practice, teaching, critiques, research, and reflection) of one individual and one institution from countries in the north and south of the Mediterranean. […]
On 6 and 7 November, the international conference Jan Zábrana: Poet – Translator – Reader was held in Prague at the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
The conference focused on three major areas of Zábrana’s work: his own poetry and fiction, his translations of modern English, American, Russian, French and Spanish literature, and finally his literary journalism in which he introduced the authors he valued highly (Jesenin, Pasternak, Mandelstam, Babel, Ferlinghetti, Plath, Stevens, Ginsberg, Parra and many others) to the public. The event sought to emphasize all three of these areas as necessary to our understanding of this genius who was stifled by the Communist era. […]
This year, the Dominykas Urbas Prize for young translators (not older than 35), which is given for the best first or second book-length translation into Lithuanian, went to Toma Gudelytė for her excellent translation from Italian of Gerico 1941. Storie di ghetto e dintorni by Igor Argamante. This prize is awarded annually on the 28 April, the birthday of the outstanding translator, editor and linguist Dominykas Urbas (1908-1996). […]
The Czech Mind Award, a prize presented by the Government of the Czech Republic for exceptional results in research, development and innovation, has been awarded to a literary translator, treasured colleague Martin Hilský. Prof. Hilský is a recipient of the Jungmann Prize, the Tom Stoppard Prize, the State Award for Translation, and the President’s Medal of Merit, as well as an Honorary Member of the British Empire for his lifelong achievement as translator, writer, and teacher. A translator of English and American literature and drama, and author of studies of modernist writing and essays on modern literature, Martin Hilský finally specialized in translating Shakespeare. […]
The Czech Literary Translators’ Guild (OP) celebrated International Translation Day at its annual award ceremony on 6 October by its Hall of Fame to Miroslav Jindra, a State Prize winner and a renowned translator from English. Fostering poetry translation, OP regularly grants the Hana Žantovská Scholarship, this time to the State Prize laureate Jiří Pelán translating selected baroque poetry to be published by Opus, a small publishing house praised by OP for its abiding devotion to quality literature and poetry in this year’s Cramerius Laudation. […]
To celebrate International Translation Day, the Portuguese Translators’ Association (APT) awarded two literary translation prizes to two translators who employed their talent and sensitivity to produce new translations of two of the greatest works of literature: James Joyce’s Ulysses (translated by Jorge Vaz de Carvalho) and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (translated by Paulo Faria). […]