The European Writers’ Council has published its follow-up survey on The Economic Impact of the Covid-19 on Writers and Translators in the European Book Sector 2020-2022. […]
EWC Survey Results: One Year of Crisis – The Winter of our Discontent
A*dS Fee Recommendations for Authors and Translators – now available in English
It is the chief task of the Swiss writers’ and translators’ association A*dS to stand up for the rights of its members and the improvement of their living and working situations. Compensation for work done […]
13th Swiss Symposium for Literary Translators
The main topic of the annual symposium organised by the Swiss writers’ and translators’ association A*dS is literary criticism this year. It’s aimed at translators […]
#TranslatorsOnTheCover Campaign
To coincide with International Translation Day, the author Mark Haddon and the translator and author Jennifer Croft have launched the #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign, in collaboration with the UK Society of Authors, for translators to be routinely credited on book covers. […]
Europe celebrates International Translation Day 2021
After a very strange 2020, things start going back to normal and, therefore translators’ associations all over Europe organise a variety of festive events to celebrate International Translation Day 2021. Do come and join us!
Belarus: Radical Crackdown Against The Free Word
The European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the European Writers Council (EWC) call on the governments of Europe and the international community to demonstrate firm support for the democracy movement in Belarus […]
CEATL joins the EWC in support of democracy and human rights in Belarus
Over the past 12 months, an unprecedented wave of searches and detentions has been targeting independent cultural and human rights organizations in Belarus. On 14 July the Directorate ‘Combating Organized Crime and Corruption’ of the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior conducted a nationwide ‘radical cleansing’ operation […]
Dall’italiano al mondo. The first international conference of translators of Italian literature
“Dall’italiano al mondo” intends to become the annual meeting of all translators of Italian literature and aims at creating a network to support the spread of Italian books abroad. […]
LGBT rights in Hungary: Letter of support and solidarity in the Micsoda család! case
CEATL is appalled by the fine imposed on the book shop Líra könyv for selling the book Micsoda család! (What a Family!) written by Lawrence Schimel […]
Online now: Counterpoint No. 5 – Translators and visibility
Visibility for all translators of all genres, and most particularly literary translators, is often a matter of passionate debate, never more so than the present time. […]
The 2021 Skjønnlitterære Oversetterfonds prize goes to our former delegate Ika Kaminka
Ika Kaminka has been awarded the 2021 Skjønnlitterære Oversetterfonds prize for her complete work as a translator from Japanese and English. The Prize was awarded at the Norwegian Festival of Literature on Thursday 27 May 2021 […]
The Polish website for literary residencies
Creative residencies for writers and translators are a long and noble tradition in Europe and across the world. The concept has remained unchanged over centuries […]
New consultancy programme for literary translations from Catalan
This innovative system will allow exchanges between pairs of translators from and to Catalan with the aim of working towards a qualitative improvement in translations from Catalan to other languages. […]
CEATL holds its AGM and elects a new board
The CEATL AGM 2021 took place online for the second year due to the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Literature Ireland Summer Translation Workshops 2021
Literature Ireland is pleased to announce its inaugural series of summer translation workshops. The workshops will be run remotely over Zoom in the week of 28 June–2 July 2021 […]
Online Conference on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT)
STING (Swansea Translation and Interpreting Group) hosted two successful international workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation in 2019 and is now organising its first full-scale conference on the topic. Postponed from 2020, this will be an online event run over Zoom. […]
Translation in Motion Program 2021: Open call for literary translation residencies
The Translation in Motion consortium of translation residencies invites applications by literary translators working from or into the languages of the countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia). […]
Webinar on machine translation and human creativity at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Recent translation research indicates that the use of translation technologies developed out of research into the neuronal processes involved in language production and creation could, in the not-too distant future, become an integral part of the literary translator’s everyday world. […]
Implementation of the EU Digital Single Market Directive: flash-survey among our members
In the first weeks of December 2020, CEATL Authors’ Rights Working Group, coordinated by Cécile Deniard, conducted a flash-survey among its member associations to gather information about the implementation of the Digital Single Market directive […]
aller↔retour ǀ festival of translation and literature
On March 6th 2021, the aller↔retour festival of translation and literature will be broadcast live from the Nouveau Monde cultural centre in Fribourg. The festival, dedicated to translation as an activity straddling artistic expression and practical craft […]