Symposium on the Untranslatable (Evry Val d’Essonne, France)
On 3-4 December 2015 the University of Evry Val d’Essonne will organise an international colloquium on the untranslatable. […]
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First Gerardo de Cremona Prizes for the promotion of translation in the Mediterranean have been awarded
On 7 May 2015 the new Gerardo de Cremona Prizes for the promotion of translation in the Mediterranean were launched by the School of Translators of Toledo (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Human Sciences and Islamic Studies (Casablanca, Morocco), the MED 21 Programme – Network Awards for promotion of Excellence and Cooperation in the Mediterranean, and the City Council of Cremona (Italy). The aim of these prizes is to honor annually the significant contributions in the field of translation (practice, teaching, critiques, research, and reflection) of one individual and one institution from countries in the north and south of the Mediterranean. […]
Conference on poet, translator and reader Jan Zábrana
On 6 and 7 November, the international conference Jan Zábrana: Poet – Translator – Reader was held in Prague at the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts of Charles University.
The conference focused on three major areas of Zábrana’s work: his own poetry and fiction, his translations of modern English, American, Russian, French and Spanish literature, and finally his literary journalism in which he introduced the authors he valued highly (Jesenin, Pasternak, Mandelstam, Babel, Ferlinghetti, Plath, Stevens, Ginsberg, Parra and many others) to the public. The event sought to emphasize all three of these areas as necessary to our understanding of this genius who was stifled by the Communist era. […]
Three Lithuanian translation prizes awarded
This year, the Dominykas Urbas Prize for young translators (not older than 35), which is given for the best first or second book-length translation into Lithuanian, went to Toma Gudelytė for her excellent translation from Italian of Gerico 1941. Storie di ghetto e dintorni by Igor Argamante. This prize is awarded annually on the 28 April, the birthday of the outstanding translator, editor and linguist Dominykas Urbas (1908-1996). […]
Czech Mind Award to Martin Hilský
The Czech Mind Award, a prize presented by the Government of the Czech Republic for exceptional results in research, development and innovation, has been awarded to a literary translator, treasured colleague Martin Hilský. Prof. Hilský is a recipient of the Jungmann Prize, the Tom Stoppard Prize, the State Award for Translation, and the President’s Medal of Merit, as well as an Honorary Member of the British Empire for his lifelong achievement as translator, writer, and teacher. A translator of English and American literature and drama, and author of studies of modernist writing and essays on modern literature, Martin Hilský finally specialized in translating Shakespeare. […]
Several Czech translation prizes awarded
The Czech Literary Translators’ Guild (OP) celebrated International Translation Day at its annual award ceremony on 6 October by its Hall of Fame to Miroslav Jindra, a State Prize winner and a renowned translator from English. Fostering poetry translation, OP regularly grants the Hana Žantovská Scholarship, this time to the State Prize laureate Jiří Pelán translating selected baroque poetry to be published by Opus, a small publishing house praised by OP for its abiding devotion to quality literature and poetry in this year’s Cramerius Laudation. […]
Prizes for literary translation awarded by the Portuguese Translators’ Association
To celebrate International Translation Day, the Portuguese Translators’ Association (APT) awarded two literary translation prizes to two translators who employed their talent and sensitivity to produce new translations of two of the greatest works of literature: James Joyce’s Ulysses (translated by Jorge Vaz de Carvalho) and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (translated by Paulo Faria). […]
Literary Translation Days in Urbino, 2015
Now an annual event, the Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters AITI will participate in the 13th Urbino Literary Translation Days. President Sandra Bertolini will participate in the opening address on Friday 9 October at 2pm. […]
NORLA’s Translator’s Award 2015 goes to Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva
The Bulgarian literary translator Eva Kaneva is the recipient of NORLA’s 2015 Translator’s Award for her translations from Norwegian into Bulgarian. The announcement was made on 1 October, just after International Translation Day and the feast of St Jerome. The award, now in its tenth year, is given annually to a translator of Norwegian literature and was established to raise awareness of the contribution made by foreign translators. […]
CEATL’s e-card to celebrate International Translation Day 2015
September 30, the feast of St. Jerome, is celebrated in the professional translation and interpreting communities as International Translation Day. If you want to celebrate this day, please click here and send the CEATL e-card with the photo of our photo contest winner Anne de Vries to your friends, colleagues, publishers, literary critics etc. Happy Translation Day! […]
What language do you eat? (Milan, 30 September 2015)
Greece, Israel and Denmark will meet in Milan on 30 September 2015. Andrea Di Gregorio, Raffaella Scardi and Eva Valvo, literary translators working into Italian from Greek, Hebrew and Danish respectively, will discuss their professional and practical experiences around food and translation with experts on the three national cuisenes.
A delegation of students from Istituto alberghiero Ballerini (Seregno) will be there to listen together with their teachers, who will afterwards help them prepare some dishes that will be presented and tasted during BookCity Scuole in October. […]
International Translation Day in Mons, cultural capital of Europe 2015
In 1991 FIT launched the idea of an officially recognised International Translation Day so that the worldwide translation community could show solidarity in promoting the translation profession in different countries. International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September – the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron saint of translators.
To underline the importance of translation and of solidarity within the translation community Café Europe in Mons, the French institute of Bosnia-Herzegovina and PEN Bosnia-Herzegovina will organise an event in the city of Mons (Belgium), the cultural capital of Europe 2015. […]