STRADE demands state foundation for the support of literary translation and other news from Italy
Tags: ItalyIt has been a busy autumn for the Italian Union of Literary Translators Strade. Starting at the beginning of October, the association was one of the main co-operating partners of the Migrant Literatures Festival in Palermo, Sicily, which hosted a series of...
Spanish Literary Translators Association awards the tenth Esther Benítez Prize to Celia Filipetto
Tags: SpainOn December 11, in Museo ABC in Madrid, Celia Filipetto was awarded the tenth Esther Benítez Prize in the presence of Manuel Rico, President of ACE (Spanish Authors Association), and Carlos Fortea, President of ACE Traductores (Spanish Literary Translators...
Spanish Association ACE Traductores takes initiative to foster translators’ visibility on literary awards
Tags: Netherlands, Spain, United KingdomOn 7 July, we awoke to the breaking news that the UK’s leading international literary awards – the Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize – are to be merged into a single, annual prize that will...
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...