Literary Translators’ Centre opened in Hanoi

May 30, 2014 | World

Tags: WorldOn 26 May 2014 the Vietnam Writers’ Association opened a centre for literary translators in Hanoi. Speaking at the opening,  the poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the Association of Vietnamese Authors, said a major goal of the new centre is to professionalize the...

FIT congress on man vs. machine translation (4-6 August 2014, Berlin)

Feb 27, 2014 | World

Tags: WorldFrom 4 till 6 August 2014 the International Federation of Translators (FIT) will organise its 20th World Congress. The congress will take place in Berlin and has as its main theme ‘Man vs. Machine? The Future of Translators, Interpreters and...

Translation Competition for Chinese literature

Dec 3, 2013 | World

Tags: WorldThe China International Translation Competition 2013 (CITC 2013) was recently launched in Beijing. The competition is the first to  target translators both in China and abroad, and is organized by the Translators’ Association of China and co-hosted by the...

Update available of ‘Global eBook report’

Oct 5, 2013 | World

Tags: WorldRüdiger Wischenbart et. al. published an update of their Global eBook report. The report documents and analyses how ebook markets are developing in the US, UK, continental Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia and the Arab world. Thematic chapters in the...

Schwob sets up English website on the world’s best unknown books

Oct 2, 2013 | Catalonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Wales, World

Tags: Catalonia, Finland, France, Netherlands, Poland, Wales, WorldSchwob, an initiative to publicize largely untranslated modern classics, cult books and must-reads from all over the world, recently launched its English website: en.schwob-books.eu. The site is part...