The 2013 Czech State Prize for Translation to Vratislav Jiljí Slezák
The 2013 Czech State Prize for Translation to Vratislav Jiljí Slezák.
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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. […]
Symposium on ‘Orality, Sounds and Sensations in the Translation of Poetry’ (17-18 October 2014, Paris)
‘Orality, Sounds and Sensations in the Translation of Poetry’ (17-18 October 2014, Paris).
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. […]
Symposium Literary Translators – Artists in commission (Berlin, 19 September 2014)
Symposium Literary Translators – Artists in commission (Berlin, 19 September 2014).
Swedish Writer’s Union advocates boycott of new contract from Bonnier Publishing Group
The Swedish Writers’ Union is advising translators in Sweden against entering into agreements with all publishing companies within the Bonnier Publishing Group, Sweden’s largest publisher. Eleven companies have been declared non grata by the Union.
This comes after the Bonnier Group introduced a new Draft Contract earlier this year, which is to be used by all its subsidiaries and which includes many changes for the worse for translators. […]
Swedish Natur & Kultur Foundation’s Translation Prize to Laura Cangemi and Ulla Ekblad-Frosgren
Swedish Natur & Kultur Foundation’s Translation Prize to Laura Cangemi and Ulla Ekblad-Frosgren.
Swedish model contract for translators terminated, new strategies in the making
The Swedish Writers’ Union and the Swedish Publishers’ Association agreed on a collective Standard Contract for translators several decades ago. The contract has been re-negotiated a few times, but it has generally been respected and practiced in almost all cases where publishers have commissioned literary translations, whether the translator or the publisher have been members of the organizations that signed the contract or not. […]
Swedish Literary Translators’ prize awarded to Gun-Britt Sundström
Swedish Literary Translators’ prize awarded to Gun-Britt Sundström.
Swedish literary translators fight for fair conditions in new contract models
Swedish literary translators facing different contracts with different publishers. Union negotiates to get fair conditions in new contract models. […]
Sweden: proposed bill and Union comments on the Copyright Directive
Ever since the EU Directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market was approved and sent to every EU country for its transposition, national governments have been working in collaboration with many of the parties involved […]
Suspension in court case against Turkish translator and publisher of Apollinaire
Suspension in court case against Turkish translator and publisher of Apollinaire.