‘Words Travel Worlds’, winner of CEATL’s third international video contest ‘Spot the translator’
Tags: World‘Portraits of Literary Translators’ was the topic chosen by CEATL for the 2014 international video contest ‘Spot the Translator’, now in its third year. The contest invites artists to help make translators more visible by creating...
Farewell to Manuel Serrat Crespo
Last month, CEATL lost one of its co-founders and honorary members, the Spanish translator Manuel Serrat Crespo. His friend and colleague Peter Bergsma has written an obituary. In the early hours of Saturday 23 August, sitting at his computer – how could it have been...
Dutch translator Hans Boland refuses the Pushkin medal
Tags: Netherlands, RussiaHans Boland, a Dutch translator of Russian literature, has refused to accept Russia’s Pushkin Medal because of his objections to President Vladimir Putin as a ‘very great danger to freedom and peace on our planet’. Established in...