Grand Prize for Literary Translation 2016 awarded by the APT and the SPA
Tags: PortugalThe APT (Associação Portuguesa de Tradutores) and the SPA (Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores) had the honour of awarding the Grand Prize for Literary Translation 2016 at a ceremony on 10th November 2016. The joint winners of the prize were Rui Carvalho...
Creation of a contract-law dispute arbitration board in the Netherlands
Tags: NetherlandsA contract-law dispute arbitration board was established in the Netherlands on 1st October 2016. Its role is to arbitrate disputes regarding the interpretation of contract law between authors and the parties exploiting their works. The procedure will...
Babel Bookshops, new Spanish campaign for the visibility of translators
Tags: SpainOn 29, 30 September and 1 October 2016, at several bookshops in different Spanish cities, ACE Traductores celebrated the first gatherings of a new campaign to promote the collaboration of booksellers and translators: Librerías de Babel. The aim of the...
French translators sent open letter to juries of literary prizes
Tags: FranceThe Association of Literary Ttranslators of France (ATLF) has noticed many times that the names of the translators of award winning foreign books weren’t mentioned in press releases issued by the juries. A negation of their work. To protest against this...