As the EU has started discussing the proposed recovery plan, 99 organisations from across Europe’s cultural and creative sectors are uniting their voices to alert EU leaders.
Joint call for ambitious EU budgetary measures for culture
Translation is in the air
Joint Statement on Budget Cuts for Culture in Flanders
The European book sector, represented by the European Writers’ Council, the Federation of European Publishers, the European and International Booksellers Federation and the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations, has learnt with consternation about the proposed savings on culture by the Flemish Minister for Culture. […]
Counterpoint’s second appearance
Today we publish the second issue of Counterpoint, CEATL’s free e-zine for literary translators and anyone else interested in translation, literature, cultural politics and copyright issues in Europe. […]
Open letter to EU leaders from Europe’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027
CEATL has joined a number of other European cultural organizations in urging EU’s political leadership to support the parliament’s proposal of an increased budget for Creative Europe. […]
AC/E grants for translation projects from Spanish
AC/E grants for translation projects (administered by the Sociedad Mercantil Estatal Acción Cultural Española, or AC/E) encourage foreign publishers to translate original literary works from Spanish as part of Spain’s participation as Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair 2020. […]
Europe celebrates International Translation Day
As every year, CEATL has the pleasure to invite you to the following events all throughout Europe. Come and celebrate with us! […]
CEATL AGM 2019 was held in Norwich and a new board was elected
CEATL has just held its Annual General Meeting in Norwich (May 9th-11th 2019). Forty delegates from twenty-six countries attended, and a new board was elected, comprising four former members and two new additions. […]
CEATL starts a new e-zine: Counterpoint
Counterpoint is an e-zine for everyone interested in literary translation. Whether you are a translator, publisher, agent, researcher, student or journalist, or just have a general interest in literature across borders, the European book market, and in the people that shape both, there will be something in Counterpoint of interest to you. […]
Two events on Sebald and translation in Norwich (10-11 May 2019)
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is hosting two free events marking what would have been the 75th birthday of its founder, W.G. Sebald, and coinciding with the exhibition “W.G. Sebald: Far Away – But From Where?”, which opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts on 11 May. […]
Czech translators of Nordic languages set up independent professional assocation
Czech translators of the Nordic languages have founded an independent professional association: Překladatelé Severu (Czech Translators of the North). […]
EACEA publishes selection results of the support to literary translation projects 2018
The main objectives of the support for literary translation projects, granted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union, were to support cultural and linguistic diversity; to strengthen the transnational circulation and diversity of high quality literary works in the long term; to improve access to these literary works in the EU and beyond as all neighbourhood countries have been included, and to reach new audiences for European translated literature. […]
What does the profession of a literary translator entail? Françoise Wuilmart in an interview with Patricia Benstein
On 30 November 2018 Françoise Wuilmart, literary translator and one of CEATL’s founding members, was interviewed at the University of Western Australia. The interview took place on the initiative of Prof. Alexandra Ludewig, head of the department of translation studies. […]
Podcast: A public event on translators’ rights by CEATL’s Working Group
On 9 October 2018 CEATL’s Working Group on Copyright met in Warsaw. As part of their meeting they organised a public event on translators’ rights.
A podcast of the meeting, held in English, is now available. […]
New CEATL project, Small is Great, takes off – Catalan association organises the pilot seminar
The Catalan Writers’ Association (AELC) just took the first step of the Small is Great project, a new initiative of CEATL’s Working Group on Training and Education. On Wednesday 3 October, AELC organised a roundtable at the Liber book fair in Barcelona. The session ‘Small languages, big translations’, […]
Europe celebrates International Translation Day
On 24 May 2017, the United Nations General Assembyl recognised 30 September as International Translation Day, to be celabrated every year across the entire UN network. Translators’ associations all over Europe organise a variety of festive events. To name a few: […]
PEN International issues Case List of transgressions against freedom of expression
PEN International has just issued its annual Case List of transgressions against the freedom of expression. Affirming the idea that ‘Literature knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among people in spite of political or international upheavals’ and the principle of ‘unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations’, PEN International has identified five patterns of oppression in 2017. One of these patterns contains references to translators: […]
CEATL publishes Guidelines for fair contracts
CEATL’s General Meeting adopted 10 May 2018 its Guidelines for fair contracts as a tool for establishing good practices in the literary translation sector. These guidelines are built on the hexalogue for good practice published by CEATL in May 2011. […]
Public event during CEATL’s AGM: Boundaries in literary translation (11 May 2018, Kopenhagen)
This 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. […]