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EsAsi Awards for professional and young literary translators Spanish – Slovene (deadline for submission: 1 October 2015)

EsAsi Awards for professional and young literary translators Spanish – Slovene (deadline for submission: 1 October 2015)

In 2008 the embassy of Spain in Slovenia launched the EsAsi award for the best translation into Slovene of literary works originally written in Spanish. This biennial award for professional translators, worth € 3000, aims to recognise the work of the translator and promote a knowledge and appreciation of Spanish literature among Slovene readers.

In 2014, the 4th round EsAsi Award was conferred on Vesna Velkovrh Bukilica for Bartleby & Co., her translation of Bartleby y compañía by Spanish author Enrique Vila Matas (published by Beletrina in 2006). […]

EsAsi Awards for professional and young literary translators Spanish – Slovene (deadline for submission: 1 October 2015)

English PEN marks decade of supporting literature in translation

English PEN’s Writers in Translation programme is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a nationwide programme of events beginning on the evening of 18 March with a launch at Foyles bookshop in London. The programme will include events dedicated to international writers at the London Book Fair, Cambridge Literary Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, among others, and will culminate in an all-day celebration of contemporary Muslim European and Middle Eastern writing at the Rich Mix arts centre in London. […]

Emerging Translator Mentorships (deadline: 28 July 2017)

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. […]

EsAsi Awards for professional and young literary translators Spanish – Slovene (deadline for submission: 1 October 2015)

Edwin Morgan Translation Fellowships (Edinburgh; deadline: 27 March 2017)

To celebrate the life and work of the translator, poet and academic, Edwin Morgan, Creative Scotland is funding two free places on the six week Text and Context course at the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School to two professional translators with an interest in twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish writing. This fellowship will foster collaboration between translators with the aim of promoting Scottish Literature, in particular, to an international audience. […]

EsAsi Awards for professional and young literary translators Spanish – Slovene (deadline for submission: 1 October 2015)

EACEA publishes selection results of the support to literary translation projects 2018

The main objectives of the support for literary translation projects, granted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union, were to support cultural and linguistic diversity; to strengthen the transnational circulation and diversity of high quality literary works in the long term; to improve access to these literary works in the EU and beyond as all neighbourhood countries have been included, and to reach new audiences for European translated literature. […]

Dutch Vondel Translation Prize for David Colmer

Dutch translator Hans Boland refuses the Pushkin medal

Hans Boland, a Dutch translator of Russian literature, has refused to accept Russia’s Pushkin Medal because of his objections to President Vladimir Putin as a ‘very great danger to freedom and peace on our planet’. Established in 1999, the Pushkin Medal is awarded by the Russian government to individuals for extraordinary achievements in arts and culture.