Mar 23, 2012 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe Literary Translation Centre will once again be a highlight of The 2012 London Book Fair, promoting and highlighting the art of literary translation in the UK and abroad. This year’s seminar programme will include: Children’s books in...
Mar 7, 2012 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe translation summer school, Use Your Language, Use Your English, will be running for a second year at Birkbeck College in London. Organised by Professor Naomi Segal (Birkbeck College), Professor Debra Kelly (University of Westminster) and Ros...
Mar 7, 2012 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThis year’s programme of the Translation Summer School organised by the British Centre for Literary Translation will include workshops translating from French, German, Japanese and Spanish into English as well as, for the first time, from Norwegian...
Feb 25, 2012 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe Society of Authors Translation Prizes were awarded on 6 February 2012. The Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize of £3,000 for translations for Arabic was awarded to Khaled Mattawa for his translation of Selected Poems by Adonis. The Schlegel-Tieck Prize...
May 25, 2011 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomA new translation award, the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize, has been established, celebrating the long friendship between the poets Joseph Brodsky and Stephen Spender, as well as the rich tradition of Russian poetry. Entrants from all...