Europe celebrates International Translation Day

Sep 28, 2018 | Bulgaria, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom

Tags: Bulgaria, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United KingdomOn 24 May 2017, the United Nations General Assembyl recognised 30 September as International...

PEN International issues Case List of transgressions against freedom of expression

Jun 8, 2018 | World

Tags: WorldPEN 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’...

Czech translators and their concerns at the Prague Book Fair (10–13 May 2018)

Jun 4, 2018 | Czech Republic

Tags: Czech RepublicTranslators enjoyed much attention at the last Prague Book Fair, visited by 46,000 book lovers, where as many as 26 countries participated in various programmes throughout the four days. Apart from numerous readings organized by publishers and a...

Call for nominations: Award from Institut Ramon Llull for literary translations from Catalan

May 26, 2018 | Catalonia

Tags: CataloniaThe Institut Ramon Llul will award a prize of € 4,000 for a literary translation from Catalan. The nominated translation  has to be the work of one translator and  have been published in 2017. Deadline: 7 June 2018 Details (in Catalan) can be found...

CEATL publishes Guidelines for fair contracts

May 24, 2018 | World

Tags: WorldCEATL’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. The...

Call for applications: ‘Translating the North’ into Italian (deadline: 15 July 2018)

May 9, 2018 | Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden

Tags: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, SwedenStradeLab, a cultural association linked with SLC-Strade, is organising ‘Laboratorio Nordico – Translating the North’, the first peer-to-peer seminar for literary translators from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and...