Literature Ireland is pleased to announce its inaugural series of summer translation workshops. The workshops will be run remotely over Zoom in the week of 28 June–2 July 2021 […]
Literature Ireland Summer Translation Workshops 2021
Online Conference on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation (CALT)
STING (Swansea Translation and Interpreting Group) hosted two successful international workshops on Computer-Assisted Literary Translation in 2019 and is now organising its first full-scale conference on the topic. Postponed from 2020, this will be an online event run over Zoom. […]
Tracing history through translation: International workshop on translation history in Oslo, Norway
Translation History is the main topic of this two-day workshop, organized by Traveling Texts (University of Oslo) and the Norwegian Encyclopedia of Translators (Norwegian Association of Literary Translators). […]
6th Conference on Translation and Interpreting Spanish-German/German-Spanish
The German section of the Translation and Interpreting Department of the University of Salamanca (Spain) is pleased to announce the 6th STIAL (Simposio de traducción e interpretación del y al alemán), a Conference on Translation and Interpreting from German into Spanish and vice versa, which will be held in Salamanca on 25, 26 and 27 March 2020. […]
Summer Course Literary Translation in Utrecht (Deadline: 1 April 2019)
This year the Dutch Centre of Expertise for Literary Translation, in collaboration with the Dutch Foundation for Literature, is organizing a Summer Course in Literary Translation for translators from Dutch into the target languages German (theatre) and Italian, from 26 to 30 August 2019 in Utrecht. Interested translators are cordially invited to register before Monday 1 April. […]
Call for applications: European School of Literary Translation (Deadline: 15 April 2019)
The third annual ESLT Summer School to be held from 10- 13 September 2019 in Rome, will bring together around 20 translators and educators from across Europe who are passionate about teaching literary translation. […]
Call for applications: JUNIVERS – International meeting of translators of German poetry (Deadline: 31 March 2019)
The TOLEDOProgramme and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) invite translators of contemporary Germanlanguage poetry to a six-day meeting, Junivers, that will be organised from 11 – 17 June 2019 at Berlin’s Wannsee. […]
Applications open for ‘Warwick Translates’ (6-10 July 2019)
‘Warwick Translates’ is the first literary translation summer school to be held at the University of Warwick (UK). It offers the opportunity to translate texts across the literary genres into English, working with leading professional translators. […]
Vacancy for Tenure-Track Professorship in Literary Translation at University of Vienna (deadline for application: 7 January 2019)
At the Centre for Translation Studies of the University of Vienna a tenure-track professorship in the field of Literary Translation (full-time position) is to be filled.
From the job announcement: […]
New CEATL project, Small is Great, takes off – Catalan association organises the pilot seminar
The Catalan Writers’ Association (AELC) just took the first step of the Small is Great project, a new initiative of CEATL’s Working Group on Training and Education. On Wednesday 3 October, AELC organised a roundtable at the Liber book fair in Barcelona. The session ‘Small languages, big translations’, […]
Call for applications: ‘Translating the North’ into Italian (deadline: 15 July 2018)
StradeLab, a cultural association linked with SLC-Strade, is organising ‘Laboratorio Nordico – Translating the North’, the first peer-to-peer seminar for literary translators from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish into Italian. The seminar is funded by the Danish Arts Foundation, Icelandic Literature Center, Norla and the Swedish Arts Council. […]
Call for application: ‘Laboratorio italiano’ in Switzerland (deadline: 30 July 2018)
Since 2015, Translation House Looren has been running its ‘Laboratorio italiano’ programme, focusing on Switzerland’s third national language.
Following the major success of the first three years with both translators and local audiences,
Translation House Looren and its partners have decided to continue the project into the year 2021. […]
Literary translation workshops (English, French and Norwegian into Italian) and editing workshops for translators (Fosdinovo, 22-24 July 2018)
From 22-24 July 2018 the sixth event in the ‘Traduttori in Movimento’ series will take place at Fosdinovo Castle in Italy. The programme offers workshops for translators from English, French and Norwegian into Italian and a translation editing workshop. Translators from Italian into another language may also participate as observers. […]
ESLT Summer School 2018 ‘Training the Teacher of Literary Translation’ (Rome, 11-14 September 2018)
From 11 – 14 September 2018 the European School of Literary Translation will organise its second Summer school. The Summer school, which will take place at Link Campus University, will bring together 20 translators and educators from across Europe and is aimed at literary translators (at any stage of their career) who are keen to develop their teaching skills and find out about innovations in the field. […]
Call for application: Workshop for translators of German children’s and young people’s literature (deadline: 2 May 2018)
From 12 to 17 August 2018 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V.) and Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (German Translators Fund) will host the ninth annual workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people entitled ‘Kein Kinderspiel!’ […]
Call for applications: International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School (Norwich; deadline: 15 April 2018)
The British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich will run an International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School from 22-28 July 2018. The summer school, which will take place in Norwich, brings together writers and translators for an intensive, one-week, residential programme of hands-on translation and creative writing practice. […]
Academy for literary translation Antwerp opens its doors in January 2018
In January 2018 the Vertalersvakschool Amsterdam (Amsterdam Academy for literary translation) will open an academy in Antwerp in cooperation with Vlaams Fonds voor de Letteren (Flemish Literary Fund). The academy starts with a pilot of two trimesters and offers courses in translation from German, English or French literature into Dutch. Experienced literary translators will be the supervisors who teach the students the tricks of the trade and help them to find their way to literary publishers. […]
Emerging Translator Mentorships (deadline: 28 July 2017)
Founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010, the translation mentoring programme of Writer´s Centre Norwich aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation. […]
European School of Literary translation starts off with summer school: Training the teacher of literary translation (Rome, 12-15 September 2017)
The newly founded European School of Literary Translation (ESLT) aims to support professional literary translation by creating a sustainable pan-European infrastructure for the education of literary translation teachers. ESLT will contribute to enhancing the quality of literary translations and, consequently, to the promotion of European cultural and literary diversity and the European ideal of a shared European culture. […]
Call for applications: Translating literature for children and young adults (Lavigny, Switzerland; deadline: 2 July, 2017)
The Centre de Traduction Littéraire will be running the ninth themed workshop for literary translators at Château de Lavigny, Switzerland, from 21 to 24 September 2017. This year’s theme will be translating literature for children and young-adults. […]