Tags: TurkeyAyşe Berktay, a translator, writer and activist in Turkey, will be awarded the 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Ayşe Berktay, a member of the Turkish association of Translators (ÇEVBİR), was arrested on 14 September 2011 and is currently...
Tags: TurkeyThis is a press release from our Turkish member organisation, Çevbir. ÇEVBİR – The Turkish Association of Literary Translators, condemns the arrests of intellectuals and the climate of intimidation Turkey is currently witnessing a period as dark as that of...
Tags: TurkeyOn Tuesday 17 December 2013 there was another hearing in the court case against the translator and the publisher of the Turkish edition of Apollinaire’s novel Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan. The case started in 2010, when the translator İsmail Yerguz and...
Tags: SpainA spontaneous campaign started on Twitter last Tuesday 4th of June with the hashtag #MalpasoPagaYa (Malpaso, pay now) in support of translators affected by the non-payment of the Spanish publishing house Malpaso Ediciones. The spark was a series of messages...
Tags: GermanyThe German Federal Court has pronounced a new verdict in the ‘translator remuneration dispute’ that has been occupying the German publishing scene since the 2002 amendment to German copyright law. A first reaction from the German literary...
Tags: TurkeyPlagiarism of translations is still one of the problems haunting the Turkish book market. It is particularly widespread among publications of the classics, popular novels of nineteenth century French and Russian authors such as War and Peace by Tolstoy,...
