An open letter to the British Museum

Jul 12, 2023 | British Museum, Open letter, Qiu Jin, Yiling Wang

Tags: British Museum, Open letter, Qiu Jin, Yiling Wang  HAPPY ENDING On August 7 Yilin Wang made the following statement on Qiu Jin’s Poetry Translations and the British Museum’s “China’s Hidden Century” exhibit “I am happy to announce that the British...

Italy: AITI calls out to the Minister of Tourism

Apr 28, 2023 | AITI, Italy

Tags: AITI, ItalyOn 25 April 2023, AITI (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti) wrote a letter to the Italian Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè and to the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) condemning the atrocious quality of the national campaign “Open...

International Translation Day in Czech: Online conference and panel on translation

Sep 26, 2022 |

To coincide with International Translation Day and as part of the Czech Presidency of the EU Council, the Czech Literary Centre is organising an online conference to provide Czech and foreign literary translators with inspiration and examples of good practice from...

International conference in Prague. Northern Wind of Change: Improving the working conditions of literary translators

Apr 27, 2022 | Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway

Tags: Czech Republic, Iceland, NorwayCzech Translators of the North, a professional organization comprising literary translators from Nordic languages ​​into Czech, is organizing the international conference Northern Wind of Change: Improving the Working Conditions of...

Swedish literary translators fight for fair conditions in new contract models

Mar 13, 2022 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenSwedish literary translators facing different contracts with different publishers. Union negotiates to get fair conditions in new contract models. For many years Swedish literary translators could rely on a collectively negotiated Standard Contract that...

Launch of the Companion for Literary Translators’ Associations

Feb 7, 2022 | Best practices

Tags: Best practicesWe proudly present the Companion for Literary Translators’ Associations (https://companion.ceatl.eu/), an online platform aimed at translator communities looking for advice, encouragement or simply inspiration. The Companion focusses on some of the...