UNESCO CLEARING HOUSE FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION

CONFERENCES OF NOTE

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April 23: BUILDING CULTURAL BRIDGES: Integrating Languages, Linguistics, Literature and Translation into Education Almaty Kazakhstan

May 21: Africa: Cultural Translations Lancaster United Kingdom

May 27: Art in Translation: International Conference on Language and the Arts Reykjavik Iceland

June 21: VII International Conference on Translation: the Paratextual Elements of Translation Bellaterra Spain

June 24: XIV Forum for Iberian Studies: The Limits of Literary Translation / Los límites de la traducción literaria Oxford United Kingdom

June 28: The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition Swansea United Kingdom

July 27: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS) 2010 Ormskirk United Kingdom

PUBLISHING PERSPECTIVES

 An international online publishing magazine, Publishing Perspectives delivers daily reports from the international publishing community as it happens.  You can subscribe to the daily email edition at  www.publishingperspectives.com. For interviews or any other information about Publishing Perspectives, contact Erin L. Cox, Publishing Perspectives, Tel.  (347) 581-0211 or email at erin@publishingperspectives.com

After gaining attention for bold contemporary art and epic films, Chinese literature is still struggling to achieve international success. Of the 275,000 titles published in China in 2008, most are unknown outside China and only a few dozen are likely to be translated. This may be changing, as Penguin China recently announced plans to translate five to eight books annually. To read the full story in the Newsweek issue of January 11, go to http://www.newsweek.com/id/228844

READING THE WORLD PODCAST NOW AVAILABLE

The monthly podcast Reading the World, produced by Erica Mena and Chad Post is now available at the Three Percent website (http://tinyurl.com/threepercentrtw).  In it, the producers talk with translators, scholars, and publishing people about international literature and the art of translation. The first episode features Lawrence Venuti talking about his translation from Catalan of Ernest Farres's Edward Hopper. Upcoming podcasts will include conversations with Suzanne Jill Levine, Bill Johnston, Esther Allen, and Susan Harris.

ALTAlk

ALTAlk is a Yahoo group that we subscribe to as an organization.  Most of us read and respond to announcements appearing in this forum.  Come and join the discussion. Signup information can be found at  at ALTAlk@yahoogroups.com.

MULTILINGUAL REALITIES IN TRANSLATION

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, a peer-review on-line journal, is seeking submissions for its issue "Multilingual Realities in Translation."   The deadline for papers is May 1, 2010, and the issue is forthcoming in January, 2011.  For the complete call for papers, go to http://reconstruction.eserver.org/upcoming.shtml

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE

Foreign Policy magazine is looking for submissions of excerpts from unpublished translated material from all over the world for a "why translation matters" package in the upcoming issue.The excerpts should be 400-500 words and we're looking for a broad range of linguistic and geographic diversity. We're most interested in fiction that addresses social or political issues, and nonfiction. We would appreciate getting all translated submissions by March 1 . For further details please contact Britt Peterson at britt.peterson@foreignpolicy.com. 

The  Rossica Young Translators Prize will be awarded for the second time this year. The aim is to nurture a new generation of Russian to English translators and offer support to young people under 25 who are passionate about the world of translation. Academia Rossica is a UK Registered Charity. It was created in 2000 to promote intellectual links and cultural collaboration between Russia and other countries. For further information about the project click here.

ERRATA

Our last issue included a call from Neil Blackadder for names of writers'/artists' retreats and residencies that are, or may be, open to literary translators. The two lists he has already researched are  http://www.creativecauldron.com/retreats.shtml and http://www.poetryresourcepage.com/colonies.html#Retreats. If you know of programs not included on either list, please let Neil know at at nblackad@knox.edu.

Through an editing error, I failed to note some interesting publications by Anne Appel in 2009. Please note that ordinarily such notices will appear three times a year in the special Members in the News section of ALTA News. Our next publication date for these notices will be in May, and a reminder and submission form will be sent to everyone several weeks in advance. For a listing of Dr. Appel's publications in 2009, please click here:

http://www.utdallas.edu/alta/newsletter/feature.html