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Conseil Européen des Associations de Traducteurs Littéraires
Since 2007 Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium Straelen (EUK) has been organising seminars for well-known German-writing authors and their translators. The meetings offer the opportunity to discuss the author’s most recent book and the difficulties in translating them.
This year – the 40th anniversary of the EUK – the seminar will be dedicated to W.G Sebald (1944–2001) whose work is still widely translated, read and discussed. →
From 22-24 July 2018 the sixth event in the ‘Traduttori in Movimento’ series will take place at Fosdinovo Castle in Italy. The programme offers workshops for translators from English, French and Norwegian into Italian and a translation editing workshop. Translators from Italian into another language may also participate as observers.
For more details on the programme, organized by Ilide Carmignani and Castello in Movimento, please click here (http://castellodifosdinovo NULL.it/it/centro-culturale/traduttori-movimento) or here (https://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/TraduttoriInMovimento/). →
From 11 – 14 September 2018 the European School of Literary Translation will organise its second Summer school (http://www NULL.eslt NULL.eu/). The Summer school, which will take place at Link Campus University (http://linkinternational NULL.eu/), will bring together 20 translators and educators from across Europe and is aimed at literary translators (at any stage of their career) who are keen to develop their teaching skills and find out about innovations in the field. →
A panel on how to become a literary translator, organised by Amazon Publishing on 10 March 2018 within the Milan book fair ‘Tempo di Libri’ (http://www NULL.tempodilibri NULL.it/event/voglio-fare-il-traduttore-preparazione-opportunit-soddisfazioni-e-rischi-dellaltro-autore), was the occasion for Italian translators’ associations to follow up on a dialogue with AmazonCrossing about their contracts with translators. →
On 12 March 2018, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, presented the Cultural Policy for 2018 to 2021. Two positive points stand out: after years of austerity, the government will start making investments in culture again and secondly, reasonable remuneration for workers in the sector is explicitly mentioned. →
In late November last year the Translators’ section of the Swedish Writers’ Union (http://www NULL.forfattarforbundet NULL.se/) recommended its members to not sign any new deals with the Bonnier Group.
The Swedish Standard Contract was cancelled last summer and in late autumn Bonnier had presented a draft contract that was unacceptable to the literary translators. →
In the past year the Bulgarian Translators’ Union (http://www NULL.bgtranslators NULL.org/) (BTU) has dealt with a number of cases of translation plagiarism.
Last March Prof. Ana Dimova, literary translator and BTU member, published an article entitled The (Un)known Joseph Roth: Translation or Transcript in the renowned literary newspaper Literaturen Vestnik (https://litvestnik NULL.wordpress NULL.com/). →
At the end of 2017 the Bulgarian Translators’ Union (http://www NULL.bgtranslators NULL.org/) organised an evening dedicated to literary translator Iglika Vassileva and her interpretation of the works of Virginia Woolf in Bulgarian. It was the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of Vassileva’s translation of To the Lighthouse and a birthday anniversary of the admired translator. →
From 12 to 17 August 2018 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V.) and Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (German Translators Fund) will host the ninth annual workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people entitled ‘Kein Kinderspiel!’
The five-day workshop in Hamburg, Germany offers 15 translators the opportunity to tackle specific problems of the genre and discuss current trends. →
The new Translators Association First Translation Prize has been won by the translator Bela Shayevich and her editor at Fitzcarraldo, Jacques Testard, for Second-Hand Time by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. The £2,000 prize was set up by translator Daniel Hahn with the Society of Authors and support from the British Council with his own 25,000€ winnings from the International Dublin literary award, which he won in 2017 with his translation A General Theory of Oblivion, a novel by José Eduardo Agualusa. →
Hosted by Vaclav Havel Library (http://www NULL.vaclavhavel-library NULL.org/en/index/news), the series ‘Lost in Translation’ is a chance for translators, editors and other representatives of publishing houses, big and small, as well as publishers owned by large media groups, to exchange their experiences, expectations, complaints and grievances, and to comment on the situation in the choked book market from their respective points of view. →
Romania will be the focus country at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair (15-18 March 2018). Among many other events on Romanian literature, the fair will also host a talk (http://www NULL.leipziger-buchmesse NULL.de/ll/veranstaltungen/29727) on literary translators and their efforts to create professional associations defending their rights.
‘Working day and night at their desks with only books and cats for company, literary translators sometimes have to go to great lengths to get organized and overcome professional isolation. →
The British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich will run an International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School from 22-28 July 2018. The summer school, which will take place in Norwich, brings together writers and translators for an intensive, one-week, residential programme of hands-on translation and creative writing practice. →
The Institut Ramon Llull offers a residency program in Catalonia for translators of Catalan literature (fiction, poetry, drama).
Candidates should live abroad and have signed a contract with a publishing house to translate the material they wish to work on during their stay.
Beneficiaries will be housed (free of charge) in an apartment on the campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and will receive a stipend to cover living expenses. →
The Goethe Institut offers funded residencies to translators from German in Gut Siggen or Dresden-Hellerau (Germany). Preference is given to translators working on contemporary texts.
Translators can stay six to eight weeks and will receive a stipend of €1,500 plus food and travel costs.
Deadline for application: 28 February 2018.
For more details, please click here (https://www NULL.goethe NULL.de/de/uun/auf/lit/uss/bew NULL.html). →
In collaboration with two bookshops in Madrid and Barcelona, Casa del Libro Gran Vía and Casa del Libro Passeig de Gràcia, ACE Traductores has launched the Club de Lectura Traducida, a very particular book club where readers will have the opportunity to share their reading experience with the translator of the book in question. →
Czech Centres (http://www NULL.czechcentres NULL.cz/) and the Czech Literary Centre traditionally invite young translators from Czech to compete in translating a chosen piece of contemporary literature. Try your luck with Bomba★Funk by Karel Veselý to win several days in the Czech Republic filled with seminars and other programmes. →
In July 2017, ten human rights defenders from various international organisations who were taking part in a routine training workshop on the island of Büyükada, Istanbul, were arrested. Two of them, İdil Eser and Özlem Dalkıran, also work as translators. Both are members of the Translators´ Association Turkey (Çevirmenler Birliği, ÇEVBİR (http://cevbir NULL.org NULL.tr/)). →
The program supports translations of canonical texts, contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies from Eastern to Western European languages or vice versa, or between two Eastern European languages. Special emphasis is put on translations of relevant works written by East European authors and/or female scholars. No applications for works of fiction and poetry are being accepted. →
On 15 December the Authors Guild (https://www NULL.authorsguild NULL.org/industry-advocacy/glimpse-world-u-s-translators/), 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. →