Latest from Ireland: Literary correspondent receives award from translators and publishing house receives major funding for translations
Tags: IrelandThe Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA) awarded honorary membership to Eileen Battersby, literary correspondent of the Irish Times, at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Friday 2 December. Ms Battersby was recognised for her championing of...
Language diversity in the spotlight at two Danish translation events (Copenhagen, Aarhus)
Tags: DenmarkTo celebrate International Translation Day 2016, the Danish Translators’ Association is hosting two events in different parts of Denmark. On 25 September, in Aarhus, four literary translators – working from Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic and Chinese into...
Italy: Introducing Calibro, a confederation of authors
Tags: Calibro, ItalyA new organization has been founded in Italy to represent the main authors’ categories in the publishing industry: writers, literary translators, illustrators, and comic book writers have now joined forces in Calibro, Confederazione Autrici e...
Italy: AITI calls out to the Minister of Tourism
Tags: AITI, ItalyOn 25 April 2023, AITI (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti) wrote a letter to the Italian Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè and to the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) condemning the atrocious quality of the national campaign “Open...