Ireland – CEATL

Europe celebrates International Translation Day

On 24 May 2017, the United Nations General Assembyl recognised 30 September as International Translation Day, to be celebrated every year across the entire UN network. Translators’ associations all over Europe organise a variety of festive events. To name a few:

Austria

The Austrian association of literary translators (http://www NULL.literaturhaus NULL.at/lh/ueg/) has a tradition of celebrating International Translation Day together with the other translators’ and interpreters’ associations in Austria by taking turns in organising the event. →

Latest from Ireland: Literary correspondent receives award from translators and publishing house receives major funding for translations

The Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA (http://www NULL.translatorsassociation NULL.ie/)) awarded honorary membership to Eileen Battersby (http://www NULL.irishtimes NULL.com/profile/eileen-battersby-7 NULL.1010655), literary correspondent of the Irish Times, at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Friday 2 December. Ms Battersby was recognised for her championing of fiction in translation, raising awareness of translated novels and of translation in general, which plays such an important role in ensuring access to literature in other languages. →

Stephen Spender Prize open for entries

The 2016 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation, run by the Stephen Spender Trust (http://www NULL.stephen-spender NULL.org/index NULL.html) in association with the Guardian newspaper, is now open for entries from UK or Irish residents. There are three categories: open (adults over the age of 18), 14-18 under-14s. →

Literature Across Frontiers publishes statistical report on literary translations in the United Kingdom and Ireland

On 13 April Literature Across Frontiers presented a new statistical report on the publishing of literary translations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The report, prepared by Alexandra Büchler and Giulia Trentacosti, provides data on the market of literary translation published between 1990 and 2012. Thus, the report aims to answers such questions as: How many translations are published in English and how accurate is the oft-quoted figure of 3%? →

Persian-English Translation Prize for poet Geoffrey Squires

Since 2001 the Roth Endowment has sponsored a Persian Translation Prize adjudicated by members of the American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIS), which represents over 30 universities teaching Farsi. The Persian Translation Prize seeks to honour superlative English translations of both contemporary and ancient Persian texts. →

Irish – Chinese Literature Translation Prize to Ma Ainong

Ma Ainong, the Chinese translator of Claire Keegan’s 2007 short-story collection Walk the Blue Fields (Chinese title published by Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture Co. Ltd, 2011) has been awarded the inaugural Irish – Chinese Literature Translation Prize, which was presented by Consul General Austin Gormley at the Shanghai Book Fair on August 14. →

Dublin IMPAC award for Juan Gabriel Vásquez and translator Anne McClean

The 2014 International Impac Dublin Literary Award has gone to Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling (El ruido de las cosas al caer), translated by Canadian Anne McClean, and published in the UK by Bloomsbury. This is the first South-American work to take the prize in its 19-year history. →

LAF report on translation statistics in the UK and Ireland

New research from Literature Across Frontiers – Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland (http://lit-across-frontiers NULL.us2 NULL.list-manage NULL.com/track/click?u=0c953e8f885c8435d90e1ba74&id=f482e0ff55&e=b6138831dd) – reveals the first ever accurate figures for the number of translated titles published in the British Isles and recommends a mechanism to collect further data. →

Translator Frank Wynne to be honoured at Irish International Translation Day (29 September 2012, Dublin)

The Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA) will mark International Translation Day with a special evening event on 29 September 2012, free and open to all, to celebrate the achievements of Frank Wynne, widely acclaimed for his translations to English of such French-language authors as Frédéric Beigbeder, Ahmahou Kourouma and Claude Lanzman. →

Irish call for translator bursary applications 2011 (Russia and Turkey)

Ireland Literature Exchange/Idirmhalartán Litríocht Éireann (ILE) invites applications from literary translators from Russia and Turkey who are working on the translation of a work of contemporary Irish literature and wish to spend a period of up to three consecutive weeks in Ireland during the period 1st March 2011 to 30th June 2011. →