Oct 15, 2020 | Norway
The Bastian Prize 2020 for Translated Literature Into Norwegian was announced on October 1st on the occasion of International Translation Day. […]
Oct 16, 2019 | Norway
The 2019 Bastian Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation was awarded in the course of the International Translation Day celebrations in Oslo on 26 September 2019. The Bastian is the annual translation prize of the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators’ (Norsk Oversetterforening). […]
Dec 20, 2014 | Italy, Sweden
On 11 December 2014, at the traditional Saint Lucy dinner, the Italian-Swedish Chamber of Commerce Assosvezia, together with the Swedish Embassy and the group for the promotion of Sweden, awarded the prize ‘Promoter of Sweden of the year 2014’ to the Seminar on translating Swedish children’s literature into Italian, delivered by Laura Cangemi, Maria Cristina Lombardi and Katia De Marco. […]
May 13, 2015 | Italy
For the 15th consecutive year, the Turin International Book Fair is organising a number of activities of special interest to translators under the title of AutoreInvisibile.
From Thursday 14 May to Sunday 17 May 2015, translators, publishers and writers will participate in seminars and discussions to analyse present issues and the future outlook for the literary translation professions, including the significant changes taking place in the publishing industry since the advent of digital technology, new translations of classic books and translations editing. […]
May 10, 2023 | Italy
An authors’ manifesto was signed by Strade, an Italian member-association of CEATL, the Italian illustrators’ association AI – Autori di immagini and ICWA – Italian Children’s Writers Association. The manifesto was launched in December 2022 during the Rome book fair “Più libri più liberi”. […]
Dec 19, 2017 | United States
On 15 December the Authors Guild, the oldest and largest professional organization for writers in the United States, released results from a survey of U.S. literary translators. The survey, distributed online in April 2017 and conducted in collaboration with the American Literary Translators Association, the American Translators Association’s Literary Division, and the PEN America Translation Committee, collected information from 205 translators on payment, royalties, copyright, and various other aspects of the literary translation profession. […]
Jun 14, 2011 | Austria
Adan Kovacsics and Johann Strutz will be awarded Austrian State Prizes.
Jun 23, 2014 | Austria
Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation goes to Uta Szyszkowitz and Ahmet Cemal.
Jul 6, 2012 | Austria
Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation was awarded.
Jun 21, 2017 | Austria
In 2007, the Amazon group refused to pay a private copying levy on recording media sold online to customers in Austria. Amazon was taken to court by the Austrian collective management organisation Austro-Mechana and found liable by the European Court of Justice to pay the levy. […]
Feb 1, 2011 | United Kingdom
Attribution des prix britanniques de traduction.
Apr 23, 2015 | United Kingdom
On 14 April, the London Book Fair, in partnership with the UK Publishers Association handed over International Excellence Awards 2015 in 18 categories of international publishing.
The International Literary Translation Initiative Award went to the Taiwanese/Singaporean journal Asymptote.