Bulgarian Translators’ Union honours translator Iglika Vassileva

Mar 23, 2018 | Bulgaria

Tags: BulgariaAt the end of 2017 the Bulgarian Translators’ Union 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...

Call for application: Workshop for translators of German children’s and young people’s literature (deadline: 2 May 2018)

Mar 21, 2018 | Germany

Tags: GermanyFrom 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...

The new Translators Association First Translation Prize and other new awards in the UK

Mar 20, 2018 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe 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...

Czech translators start a series of discussions on developments in book market

Mar 15, 2018 | Czech Republic

Tags: Czech RepublicHosted by Vaclav Havel Library, 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,...

Romanian and Argentinian literary translators talk about their professional activism at Leipzig Book Fair (16 March 2018)

Mar 15, 2018 | Romania

Tags: RomaniaRomania 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 on literary translators and their efforts to create professional associations defending...