What makes a translation great?

May 5, 2018 | World

Tags: World“It’s easy to say what a bad translation is. The ones that are accidentally jagged like the person wielding the scissors was drunk. The ones where someone has misunderstood the original, or perhaps misinterpreted it. The ones where all individuality has...

Public event during CEATL’s AGM: Boundaries in literary translation (11 May 2018, Kopenhagen)

May 4, 2018 | Denmark, Europe

Tags: Denmark, EuropeThis year, the annual meeting of the CEATL will take place in Copenhagen, and as part of this gathering, the delegates and the general public are invited to a special edition of the literary event The Red Couch. On Friday 11 May, literary...

‘AutoreInvisibile’ up for discussion at Turin International Book Fair (10-13 May 2018)

Apr 29, 2018 | Italy

Tags: ItalyFor the nineteenth consecutive year, the Turin International Book Fair is organizing a number of activities of special interest to translators, under the title AutoreInvisibile. From Thursday 10 May to Sunday 13 May 2018, translators, publishers and writers...

International Translators’ Centre in Straelen invites translators of W.G. Sebald to a seminar (Deadline 26 April 2018)

Apr 17, 2018 | Germany

Tags: GermanySince 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...

Literary translation workshops (English, French and Norwegian into Italian) and editing workshops for translators (Fosdinovo, 22-24 July 2018)

Apr 12, 2018 | Italy

Tags: ItalyFrom 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....