2010 Award for the best poetry translation in Catalan

May 6, 2011 | Catalonia

Tags: CataloniaDuring a ceremony in Mallorca on Saturday 9 April, the Catalan Association of Authors, AELC, awarded the 2010 prize for best poetry translation in Catalan. Josep Antoni Ysern received the award for Udols d’un llop de paper, his translation of a...

New Dutch website introduces untranslated world literature

Apr 28, 2011 | Netherlands

Tags: NetherlandsThe Dutch Foundation for Literature has just launched a new website. Schwob.nl will focus on important world literature that hasn’t yet been translated into Dutch. In this way, Schwob.nl hopes to draw attention and enthusiasm from readers and editors...

The Czech ‘Magnesia Litera’ translation prize goes to Radka Denemarková

Apr 28, 2011 | Czech Republic

Tags: Czech RepublicMagnesia Litera, which is awarded for the tenth time this year, has since its inception become a prestigious Czech literary prize for the previous year’s best book. Besides the main prize, books in eight literary categories (prose, poetry,...

Diversity Report 2010: Who is translated across Europe?

Mar 28, 2011 | Europe

Tags: EuropeAs a follow up on their previous mapping and research on literary translation in Europe, Rüdiger Wischenbart and his colleagues now present The Diversity Report 2010. As the researchers report: ‘The Diversity Report 2010 aims at portraying and mapping how...

Prize-winning documentary on Russian translator Geier on Swiss television

Mar 11, 2011 | Germany, Switzerland

Tags: Germany, SwitzerlandSvetlana Geier, considered one of the greatest translators of Russian literature into German, spent more than twenty years working on the translation of five novels by Dostoyevsky. At age of 85, Geier leaves Germany, her adopted country, for...

Training in translation skills for native Anglophones

Mar 9, 2011 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomThe AHRC, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London and the University of Westminster start a new research-training initiative. It is a collaboration between the Translators Association of the Society of Authors, UK, the Institute of...