The new Translators Association First Translation Prize and other new awards in the UK

Mar 20, 2018 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe new Translators Association First Translation Prize has been won by the translator Bela Shayevich and her editor at Fitzcarraldo,  Jacques Testard, for Second-Hand Time by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. The £2,000 prize was set up by...

Call for applications: International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School (Norwich; deadline: 15 April 2018)

Feb 20, 2018 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich will run an International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School from 22-28 July 2018. The summer school, which will take place in Norwich,...

Turkey: Two detained translators and six other human right defenders have been released, as the court case continues

Jan 6, 2018 | Turkey

Tags: TurkeyIn July 2017, ten human rights defenders from various international organisations who were taking part in a routine training workshop on the island of Büyükada, Istanbul, were arrested. Two of them, İdil Eser and Özlem Dalkıran, also work as translators....

Authors Guild publishes results of a survey on working conditions of U.S. Literary translators

Dec 19, 2017 | United States

Tags: United StatesOn 15 December the Authors Guild, the oldest and largest professional organization for writers in the United States, released results from a survey of U.S. literary translators. The survey, distributed online in April 2017 and conducted in...

Academy for literary translation Antwerp opens its doors in January 2018

Dec 9, 2017 | Belgium, Netherlands

Tags: Belgium, NetherlandsIn January 2018 the Vertalersvakschool Amsterdam (Amsterdam Academy for literary translation) will open an academy in Antwerp in cooperation with Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren (Flemish Literary Fund). The academy starts with a pilot of two...

Former CEATL president Ros Schwartz argues in favour of slow translation

Dec 9, 2017 | World

Tags: WorldThere seems to be a commonly held belief (among translators, publishers, and readers alike) that the more books you translate, the faster you become. But often the opposite is true, because with experience many translators become more alert to linguistic...