Italian Translators’ House to be opened in Rome in January 2012
Italian translators’ house to be opened in Rome in January 2012.
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Italian Translators’ Association STRADE addresses AmazonCrossing with an open letter
A panel on how to become a literary translator, organised by Amazon Publishing on 10 March 2018 within the Milan book fair ‘Tempo di Libri’, was the occasion for Italian translators’ associations to follow up on a dialogue with AmazonCrossing about their contracts with translators.
This dialogue started in 2014, after a European campaign involving VdÜ, Strade, ATLF and CEATL. A meeting between the parties was organized at the 2014 Frankfurt book fair. This meeting brought some improvements in AmazonCrossing’s standard translation contract and the parties left with an agreement to continue discussions as CEATL still didn’t deem it satisfactory. […]
Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs launches open call (deadline: 31 March 2015)
Underlining the importance of the diffusion of Italian books throughout the world to promote Italian culture, Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a call for initiatives that contribute to the diffusion of Italian books abroad. Among the subventions of the ministry are translation grants to international publishers who publish Italian-language works of contemporary literature, literature for children and young people, important academic titles, and non-fiction works. […]
Italian literary translators presented a new webzine
Italian literary translators presented a new webzine, Strade magazine.
Italian book fair attempts to charge entrance fee from literary translators – in vain
Italian book fair attempts to charge entrance fee from literary translators – in vain.
Italian associations launch ‘Table of Translators’
On 20 January 2017 a new initiative called TableT – The Table of Translators was launched in Milan, at Laboratorio Formentini, by translators’ associations AITI and STradE. The tables, open to all translators, cover three different areas – from all languages into Italian, from a specific language into and out of Italian and tables with different themes. […]
Italian association Strade joined workers’ union CGIL
Italian association Strade joined workers’ union CGIL.
Irish – Chinese Literature Translation Prize to Ma Ainong
Irish – Chinese Literature Translation Prize to Ma Aimong.
Irish Mentorships for German translators
To foster a new generation of German-language literary translators who wish to acquire expertise in Irish literature and culture, Literature Ireland is pleased to announce two funded mentorships, offered to early career literary translators working from English to German. […]
Irish call for translator bursary applications 2011 (Russia and Turkey)
Ireland Literature Exchange calls for bursary applications from Russian and Turkish translators.
Irena Aleksaitė and Georgij Jefremov awarded with Lithuanian St. Jerome Prizes
Irena Aleksaitė and Georgij Jefremov awarded with Lithuanian St. Jerome Prizes.
Iranian conservative media lash out at Sepideh Jodeyri, translator of a French lesbian graphic novel
According to an article by French author Julie Maroh [link], Iranian poet and translator Sepideh Jodeyri has become the target of Iran’s religiously conservative media outlets.
After her public support for the pro-democracy ‘Green movement’ Jodeyri’s works were banned in Iran, and she was forced to publish her Farsi translation of Maroh’s novel Le blue est une couleur chaude (in English called Blue is the Warmest Colour) abroad. The novel is a coming-of-age story about a young woman in a lesbian relationship. The translation is published by Naakojaa, an Iranian publishing house in Paris. […]