Mar 18, 2015 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomEnglish 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...
Mar 3, 2015 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomOn 25 February the Translation Prizes of the Society of Authors were presented in an award ceremony at Europe House, London. The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize (£3,000) for translation from the Arabic was awarded to Sinan Antoon for his translation of...
Dec 17, 2014 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe London Book Fair is offering an International Literary Translation Initiative Award, which recognises the contribution of ‘organisations that have succeeded in raising the profile of literature in translation, promoting literary translators,...
Sep 5, 2014 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomOn Friday 26 September the British Library will host the Fifth International Translation Day symposium. The all-day annual event is an opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers to gather and...
May 24, 2014 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThe Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been won by the Arab writer Hassan Blasim for his second short-story collection The Iraqi Christ, and by translator Jonathan Wright. The book was published by independent Comma Press. Blasim, described as...
