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CEATL’s e-card to celebrate International Translation Day 2015

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! […]

CEATL’s e-card to celebrate International Translation Day 2015

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

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. […]

Opening of venue for translators and others in publishing (Milan, 21 September 2015)

Opening of venue for translators and others in publishing (Milan, 21 September 2015)

On Monday 21 September 2015 at 6:30 p.m., a new space dedicated to the publishing world will be officially opened in the heart of Milan. Laboratorio Formentini (Via Marco Formentini 10, Milan) is a place where all who are involved in the book industry will have a chance to meet and organise public events. As both STradE (Sindacato Traduttori Editoriali) and AITI (Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti) are partners in the project, translators will be able to work and meet daily on the premises and also organise courses, seminars, workshops and public events on translation. […]

Conference ‘Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?’ (Nitra, Slovakia, 8-9 October 2015)

Conference ‘Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?’ (Nitra, Slovakia, 8-9 October 2015)

Histories of the discipline of Translation Studies often refer to the Low Countries and the Nitra Schools, of which James Holmes and Anton Popovič are important representatives.

Without wishing to deny their importance, the conference ‘Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?’ will focus on and trace the continuing impact of the lines of thinking developed in these two schools, and connect them in a prospective way to further developments in Translation Studies. The conference will thus address questions such as: ‘Can we discuss such issues as mapping and remapping, naming and renaming, sociological and communicative approaches without bearing these influences in mind?’ and ‘To what extent has value been added to the lines of thinking in contemporary research stemming from the Low Countries and Nitra?’ […]

International Translation Day in Mons, cultural capital of Europe 2015

‘Translation, Everywhere’ Photo Contest

Literary translators don’t exist. That’s what you’d often think from looking at the press, book reviews, book covers… You’d think books are magically written in all sorts of languages at the drop of a hat. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets in English, but they are read all over the world in Russian, German, Swedish, Catalan… So literary translators do exist. Help make us visible!

CEATL, the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (www.ceatl.eu), is calling on amateur photographers to create sparky and clever photographs reflecting the existence and importance of literary translators, their challenges, and their role in literature. Any topic can be used, as long as it is in some way related to literary translation. One digital picture per participant will be accepted, and a 200 Euro voucher for dinner and books will be awarded for the winner before International Translation Day, 30 September 2015. […]

Conference ‘Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?’ (Nitra, Slovakia, 8-9 October 2015)

Tenth anniversary of Translation House Looren marked with literature and music

Since 2005, Translation House Looren in Switzerland has been hosting literary translators, organising workshops in literary translation, and providing readings for the general public.

To mark its 10th anniversary, actors Claudia Carigiet and Jürg Kienberger have created a multilingual literary and musical program entitled Teufelsbrücken (‘Devil’s Bridges’). The programme will have its premiere on 5 September in Looren, and will then tour Switzerland until 17 December 2015. […]

CEATL’s e-card to celebrate International Translation Day 2015

Translation slam with Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall on text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio) (Milan, 5 June 2015)

On the occasion of the annual assembly of CEATL, the Italian translators associations AITI and STradE will organise a translation slam from Italian to English based on an unpublished text by Giuseppe Lupo (Marsilio). Contenders in this public event will be Clarissa Botsford and Frederika Randall, moderated by translator and CEATL board member Shaun Whiteside. […]

Two translation slams at Festivaletteratura (9-13 September, Italy)

AutoreInvisibile: program on translation at Turin International Book Fair (14-17 May 2015)

For the 15th consecutive year, the Turin International Book Fair is organising a number of activities of special interest to translators under the title of AutoreInvisibile.

From Thursday 14 May to Sunday 17 May 2015, translators, publishers and writers will participate in seminars and discussions to analyse present issues and the future outlook for the literary translation professions, including the significant changes taking place in the publishing industry since the advent of digital technology, new translations of classic books and translations editing. […]

Conference ‘Some Holmes and Popovič in all of us?’ (Nitra, Slovakia, 8-9 October 2015)

Translators featured at 22nd Budapest Book Festival

Literary translators took a front seat at this year’s International Book Festival in Budapest [link], that took place from 23 to 26 April, as the book industry’s four-day festivities unfolded for the 22nd year running, in the spacious grounds of Millenáris Park in the heart of the city. This is the second year that Hungarian translators are making their presence felt at major literary events, much to everyone’s satisfaction. […]