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Translation slam with Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall on text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio) (Milan, 5 June 2015)

Translation slam with Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall on text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio) (Milan, 5 June 2015)

On the occasion of the annual assembly of CEATL, the Italian translators associations AITI and STradE will organise a translation slam from Italian to English based on an unpublished text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio). Contenders in this public event will be Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall, moderated by translator and CEATL board member Shaun Whiteside. […]

Translation of fiction at Book World Prague 2016, the 22nd international Prague book fair and literary festival  (12-15 May 2016)

Translation of fiction at Book World Prague 2016, the 22nd international Prague book fair and literary festival (12-15 May 2016)

Among numerous events relating to foreign authors and their translators, the programme features several items on the translation of fiction and children’s literature.

On Thursday 12 May, literary agent Andrew Nurnberg will give a talk about copyright and changes in attitudes of American and British copyright holders towards the Czech and Slovak book-markets over the last 20 years. […]

Translation Meetings in Poland

Translation Meetings in Poland

This year, several talks about translation were offered through the New Translators program. Under the motto “Translation, bridge between cultures”, three events were organised by EIZIE in conjunction with the Etxepare Basque Institute for the specific purpose of speaking about the importance of translation in Basque literature (and culture). […]

Translation is in the air

Translation is in the air

A “playful antivirus” made of words that cross borders and fly all around the world to enter the homes of boys and girls. The children’s rhyme about the coronavirusIs There Something in the Air?(Che cos’è che in aria vola?), written by Roberto Piumini, one of Italy’s most beloved children’s authors, will soon be available in about thirty languages thanks to the many translators who volunteered their efforts.

Translation slam with Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall on text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio) (Milan, 5 June 2015)

Translation grants for publishers of Icelandic literature (deadline: 15 February and 15 September 2015)

The Icelandic Literature Center (Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta) has a fund available to foreign publishers wishing to publish a work translated from Icelandic. Applications for support can only be made after the applicant has acquired the rights to the work and signed a contract with the translator. The Icelandic Literature Center cannot grant support to a translation published before the deadline for which the application is submitted. The aim of the fund is to promote Icelandic literature abroad. Grants are available for literary works (prose, poetry and drama), non-fiction of general interest (including essays and biographies), comic books and children’s books. […]

Translation events at 20th Festivaletteratura (Mantua, 7-11 September 2016)

Translation events at 20th Festivaletteratura (Mantua, 7-11 September 2016)

The 20th Festivaletteratura, Italy’s most important literary festival, will be held from 7 to 11 September in Mantua.

This year’s translation slam (10 September at 3 pm) features the Spanish-Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II and two of his many Italian translators, Gina Maneri and Silvia Sichel, who will joust over an unpublished piece of journalism by the author. […]