As every year, CEATL has the pleasure to invite you to the following events all throughout Europe. Come and celebrate with us! […]
Europe celebrates International Translation Day
Call for applications: The March 2020 residency programme for writers and translators in the Białowieża Forest, Eastern Poland
Rousseau’s Manor and Tropinka – Association for Dialogue offer four residencies, free of charge, for members of the Polish Literary Translators Association, Literary Union and fellow authors from Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine. We invite four people to Świnoroje (near Narewka) between 14 and 28 March 2020. […]
Spanish translators join forces against non-paying publishing house: avalanche of solidarity on Twitter
A spontaneous campaign started on Twitter last Tuesday 4th of June with the hashtag #MalpasoPagaYa (Malpaso, pay now) in support of translators affected by the non-payment of the Spanish publishing house Malpaso Ediciones. […]
Call for applications: funded residencies for translators of Italian literature (deadline: 30 June 2019)
The Casa delle Traduzioni in Rome, a public library and cultural centre specializing in the subject of translation, awards funded residencies for translators working from Italian into their native language. […]
CEATL AGM 2019 was held in Norwich and a new board was elected
CEATL has just held its Annual General Meeting in Norwich (May 9th-11th 2019). Forty delegates from twenty-six countries attended, and a new board was elected, comprising four former members and two new additions. […]
Call for nominations: Award from Institut Ramon Llull for literary translations from Catalan
The Institut Ramon Llull 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 2018. […]
CEATL starts a new e-zine: Counterpoint
Counterpoint is an e-zine for everyone interested in literary translation. Whether you are a translator, publisher, agent, researcher, student or journalist, or just have a general interest in literature across borders, the European book market, and in the people that shape both, there will be something in Counterpoint of interest to you. […]
Recently published: Diversity Report 2018 on translated fiction across Europe
The brand new Diversity Report 2018 on translated fiction across 10 languages and markets throughout Europe has now been published. It follows trends in literary translation, market developments, new and traditional publishing models and funding schemes. […]
Two events on Sebald and translation in Norwich (10-11 May 2019)
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is hosting two free events marking what would have been the 75th birthday of its founder, W.G. Sebald, and coinciding with the exhibition “W.G. Sebald: Far Away – But From Where?”, which opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts on 11 May. […]
Calls for proposals EACEA: Support to Literary translation projects (Deadline: 4 June 2019)
EACEA opens the call for Support to Literary translation projects with the main objectives being:to support cultural and linguistic diversity in the EU and in other countries participating in the Culture Sub-programme of the Creative Europe Programme; […]
Literary translation programme at Turin International Book Fair (9-12 May 2019)
For the 19th consecutive year, the Turin International Book Fair will organise a number of activities of special interest to translators, under the title AutoreInvisibile.From Thursday 9 May to Sunday 12 May 2019, translators, publishers and writers will participate in seminars and discussions on current issues in literary translation. […]
Inside the translator’s head – maybe the first comic book ever about the work of translators
Sitting for hours and typing away? With their noses in books and dictionaries? Aha, only apparently so! The lives of translators are full of exciting adventures and extraordinary experiences, although most of these happen in their heads.W głowie tłumaczy (‘Inside the translator’s head’) is the first comic (maybe even on a global scale, though we can’t be certain) about translators and their work: […]
Call for applications: Frankfurt International Translators Programme (Deadline: 30 April 2019)
The Frankfurt International Translators Programme is aimed at international literary and non-fiction translators translating from the German language. Up to thirty translators from all around the world will be selected by Frankfurter Buchmesse to take part in an exclusive exchange and networking programme. […]
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. […]
Czech translators of Nordic languages set up independent professional assocation
Czech translators of the Nordic languages have founded an independent professional association: Překladatelé Severu (Czech Translators of the North). […]
Call for applications: European School of Literary Translation (Deadline: 15 April 2019)
The third annual ESLT Summer School to be held from 10- 13 September 2019 in Rome, will bring together around 20 translators and educators from across Europe who are passionate about teaching literary translation. […]
Susanna Roth Translators Award 2019 – Call for Entries
Czech Centres and the Literary Section of the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI), Prague, announce the 5th year of the International Competition for Young Translators – The Susanna Roth Prize, named after the celebrated Swiss translator Susanna Roth (1950 – 1997) who made a significant contribution to the promotion of contemporary Czech literature abroad. […]
Residencies for literary translators of German literature (Deadline for application: 28 February 2019)
The Goethe-Institut’s European Translators’ Residency Programme, in cooperation with the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony are offering a work grant in Germany to literary translators from abroad. […]
Call for applications: JUNIVERS – International meeting of translators of German poetry (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
The TOLEDOProgramme and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) invite translators of contemporary Germanlanguage poetry to a six-day meeting, Junivers, that will be organised from 11 – 17 June 2019 at Berlin’s Wannsee. […]
EACEA publishes selection results of the support to literary translation projects 2018
The main objectives of the support for literary translation projects, granted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union, were to support cultural and linguistic diversity; to strengthen the transnational circulation and diversity of high quality literary works in the long term; to improve access to these literary works in the EU and beyond as all neighbourhood countries have been included, and to reach new audiences for European translated literature. […]