Call for applications: ‘Translating the North’ into Italian (deadline: 15 July 2018)

May 9, 2018 | Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden

Tags: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, SwedenStradeLab, a cultural association linked with SLC-Strade, is organising ‘Laboratorio Nordico – Translating the North’, the first peer-to-peer seminar for literary translators from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and...

Negotiations on new contract follow successful talks between the Swedish Writers’ Union and the Bonnier Publishing Group

Mar 26, 2018 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenIn late November last year the Translators’ section of the Swedish Writers’ Union recommended its members to not sign any new deals with the Bonnier Group. The Swedish Standard Contract was cancelled last summer and in late autumn Bonnier had presented a...

Swedish Writer’s Union advocates boycott of new contract from Bonnier Publishing Group

Dec 12, 2017 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenThe 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...

Lecture on literary translation and Nazism, protests against Neo-Nazi March in Gothenburg – International Translation Day 2017 in Sweden

Oct 22, 2017 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenFrom 28 September to 1 October 2017, Gothenburg Book Fair hosted ´Room for Translation´, a programme with talks on literary translation. International Translation Day (30 September) was celebrated with a panel discussion about ‘Strategies of...

Swedish model contract for translators terminated, new strategies in the making

Jun 15, 2017 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenThe Swedish Writers’ Union and the Swedish Publishers’ Association agreed on a collective Model 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...