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Grants from the Spanish Centre for Literary Translations at Tarazona

The Spanish Centre for Literary Translations at Tarazona will award 20 grants for European translators to work there in residence.

World Directory of Children's Book Translators Created

The Directory was developed jointly by the Bologna Children's Book Fair and UNESCO and will be announced officially on the first day of the fair this year.

Theatrical Works on the Web in Basque

The Basque translations of a number of theatrical works can now be read on the web thanks to the electronic publication by Armiarma of previous issues of the journal Antzerti [Theater]. Antzerti was published at two different times (1932-1936 and 1982-1985) and is an invaluable historical resource both of Basque theater and of the translation of theatrical works

Fernando Rey, winner of Euskadi award

Fernando Rey has been awarded with this year's Euskadi prize for the best literary translation into Basque, in consideration of Pereirak dioenez, his translation of Italian author Antonio Tabucchi's Sostiene Pereira (Igela publishing house, 2006).

Jesus Krist Gure Jaunaren Testamentu Berria

The Fundación Caja Navarra has published a facsimile edition of the Our Lord Jesus Christ New Testament, a translation of the New Testament completed by Joannes Leizarraga in 1571.

Court Interpreters on Strike

Court interpreters across Southern California (USA) went on strike for better salaries and inclusion in the pay raise ladder for all judicial employees.

Edward Seidensticker

Edward Seidensticker, a leading scholar and translator of Japanese literature including the epic Tale of Genji, died August 26 in Tokyo, after slipping into a coma from a head injury suffered in April. He was 86.

Dangerous translations

A French high-school student has been held for questioning after he posted a rogue translation of the latest Harry Potter book on the Internet.

«The Song of the Crickets» by Edorta Jimenez translated into Spanish

Edorta Jimenez (born in Mundaka, 1953) announces the publication of El canto de los grillos, the translation into Spanish of his novel, Kilkerren hotsak (The Song of the Crickets), which was published by Susa in 2003. The translation, by Bego Montorio, was published by Ttartalo. The work will also be published soon in German, by the publishing house Pahl-Rugenstein.

This year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize awarded to Agualusa and Hahn

The Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa and his translator into English Daniel Hahn have won this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Book of Chameleons. The prize, which is given by the British newspaper The Independent and supported by Arts Council England, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction translated into English and is unique in that the monetary award is divided equally between the author and the translator.