Checklist for the organisation of digital readings and workshops

Dec 26, 2020 | Europe, Switzerland

Tags: Europe, SwitzerlandAt present, many events cannot be physically organised. Some are being transferred to the digital space. There may be a lack of experience and knowledge to carry out a digital event as coherently as possible.   The professional...

Over 70 Translated Books Given to Parliament and the Government to Shake Up Italian Politics

Dec 17, 2020 | Italy

Tags: ItalyA delegation from Strade, Italian member-association of CEATL, delivered to the Senate building in Rome over 70 books in translation for just as many Italian politicians on December 15, 2020. Along with the books was an open letter to the President of the...

Out now: Counterpoint no. 4 with a special feature on machine translation and literature

Dec 14, 2020 | Europe

Tags: EuropeA new issue of Counterpoint is out now! This 4th issue of CEATL’s e-zine for and about literary translators, features a hot topic: machine translation and literature. When it comes to the translation of literary texts, the question of how useful machines...

#freewordsbelarus 36 Presidents, Chairs and board members of 33 writers’ and translators’ organisations from 22 countries representing 120,000 authors, join voices to support the democracy movement in Belarus

Nov 26, 2020 | Belarus, Europe

Tags: Belarus, EuropeOn 26 November, the 90th birthday of the Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, the video reading campaign #freewordsbelarus will be launched on the EWC Daily- Motion-channel. The joint action of the European Writers’ Council (EWC) and the...

Famous first lines read online by translators from all over the world

Nov 23, 2020 | Argentina, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland

Tags: Argentina, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, SwitzerlandTranslators associations from all over the world are holding a multilingual reading of famous first lines as part of the online edition of the 37th Assises de la traduction littéraire. The reading takes place on...