Dec 20, 2014 | Italy, Sweden
Tags: Italy, SwedenOn 11 December 2014, at the traditional Saint Lucy dinner, the Italian-Swedish Chamber of Commerce Assosvezia, together with the Swedish Embassy and the group for the promotion of Sweden, awarded the prize ‘Promoter of Sweden of the year 2014’ to...
Dec 17, 2014 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe London Book Fair is offering an International Literary Translation Initiative Award, which recognises the contribution of ‘organisations that have succeeded in raising the profile of literature in translation, promoting literary translators,...
Dec 8, 2014 | Germany, Turkey
Tags: Germany, TurkeyDuring a festive ceremony at the German consulate in Istanbul on 1 December the Tarabya Translation Prizes for literary translations were presented. Gürsel Aytaç was honoured with the major translation prize. Ms Aytaç is the Turkish translator of...
Nov 18, 2014 | Czech Republic
Tags: Czech RepublicThe 2014 Czech State Prize for Translation, awarded on the recommendation of the Czech Literary Translators’s Guild, has been conferred to Jiří Pechar, renowned translator from French, Italian, Spanish and German, and translation theory scholar and...
Nov 14, 2014 | Czech Republic
Tags: Czech RepublicThe Czech Literary Translators’ Guild celebrated International Translation Day with its annual awards ceremony. The Hana Žantovská Scholarship for poetry translation went to Michael Alexa for his translation of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski,...
