NORLA’s Translator’s Award 2015 goes to Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva

Oct 7, 2015 | Bulgaria, Norway

Tags: Bulgaria, NorwayThe Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva is the recipient of NORLA’s 2015 Translator’s Award for her translations from Norwegian into Bulgarian. The announcement was made on 1 October, just after International Translation Day and the feast of...

CEATL’s e-card to celebrate International Translation Day 2015

Sep 29, 2015 | World

Tags: WorldSeptember 30, the feast of St. Jerome, is celebrated in the professional translation and interpreting communities as International Translation Day. If you want to celebrate this day, please click on one of the pictures below (or click here or here) and send...

‘The Dancers’, by Anne de Vries, winner of CEATL’s international photo contest ‘Translation, Everywhere’

Sep 26, 2015 | World

Tags: WorldCEATL, 24 September 2015 This year CEATL’s competition has been an international photography contest called ‘Translation, Everywhere’. CEATL invited photo amateurs to create sparky and clever photographs reflecting the existence and...

TTIP negotiations : CEATL welcomes the European Parliament’s recommendations

Sep 9, 2015 | World

Tags: WorldBrussels, 8 September, 2015 In a press release dated 2 February 2015, CEATL sounded the alarm on the fact that the publishing industry was part of the TTIP negotiating mandate, which might pose a threat to policies of protection and promotion of the book...

Man Booker International Prize to reflect growing importance of translation

Aug 21, 2015 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe Booker Prize Foundation has announced that from 2016 the Man Booker International Prize will evolve, to encourage more publishing and reading of quality fiction in translation. From next year the prize, which will join forces with the current...

Europese Literatuurprijs 2015 awarded to German author Jenny Erpenbeck and Dutch translator Elly Schippers

Aug 5, 2015 | Netherlands

Tags: NetherlandsThe Europese Literatuurprijs [European Literature Award] for 2015 has been awarded to Een handvol sneeuw (Aller Tage Abend) by German writer Jenny Erpenbeck in the Dutch translation by Elly Schippers. The Europese Literatuurprijs is awarded to a novel...