Spanish assocation ACE Traductores opposes Penguin Random House pay cuts
Tags: SpainOne of our members, the association ACE Traductores from Spain, let us know the following. On 10 February 2015 Penguin Random House publishing group informed translators that the rates paid would be decreased from 16 February 2015, and that such an...Italian book fair attempts to charge entrance fee from literary translators – in vain
Tags: ItalyPiù libri più liberi is a long-established book fair held in Rome every year at the beginning of December. In November literary translators learned to their great surprise that their category, along with authors, illustrators and other associates, would no...
Literary translator and sociologist Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı killed in Kobanê
Tags: TurkeyThe Turkish Association of Translators (ÇEVBİR) lost a friend and colleague, Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, in the resistance movement in Kobanê (Syria). Ağırnaslı (30) studied sociology at the Bosporus University in Istanbul. In 2011 he received his MA degree...