Peter Bush seminar added to spring lineup of Bristol translation events :)

It's turned into a bit of an exciting spring for translation events at Bristol. Not only do we have Don Share's visit at the end of the month, and two talks on language jobs in the UN and translation in UK-China trade, but I have just been notified about a seminar on Catalan literary translation taking place this Wednesday 22 March, featuring one of the UK's most respected and widely-published literary translators, Peter Bush:

"La traducció literària del català a l'anglès: Pa negre i alters obres" / 

"Catalan translation from Catalan into English: Black bread and other books". 

Peter Bush (Catalan-English translator): 

Wednesday 22nd March, 14.10-15.40, 12 Woodland Rd, 1G5.

I think you need a current University card to access this venue. Please address any queries to the organiser at marc.comadran at bristol.ac.uk.  

Peter Bush is a freelance literary translator and scholar who lives in Oxford. He has translated fifteen works from Catalan by authors such as Empar Moliner, Najat El Hachmi, Quim Monzó, Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Teresa Solana and Emili Teixidor. His translation of Pla´s The Gray Notebook won the 2014 Ramon Llull Literary Translation Prize and he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2015 for his translation and promotion of Catalan literature. He has also won awards for his translations from Portuguese and Spanish. He has translated work by Carmen Boullosa,  Juan Goytisolo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Leonardo Padura and Senel Paz and a number of classics including Celestina and Tyrant Banderas. His most recent translation from French is In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou.

For more information on Peter Bush see his Wikipedia page. Readers who have taken my classes in the past may be familiar with some of Peter's writings on translation including this excellent essay looking at different drafts of one of his Goytisolo translations (may download directly as a pdf). 

open access translation journals

Since I'm getting around to revamping our website with new resource pages, I thought that a list of open-access translation journals might be of interest to readers. There are other good lists (see below); criteria for this list are that the journals be peer reviewed and all (or nearly all) open access. Suggestions of additional journals are very welcome.

Meta (one of the top journals in the field; recent issues are firewall-protected)

TTR (ditto)

Journal of Specialised Translation (a personal favourite)

New Voices in Translation Studies

TranscUlturAl (new but promising)

Transversal, published by the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policy (some of the most interesting writing about translation on the web).

Quaderns: revista de traducció is a Catalan journal published by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Other Iberian journals include Doletiana, *Trans, *1611: A Journal of Translation History, the *Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, the *Revista tradumàtica : traducció i tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació and *MonTI (issues online six months after publication).

Italian journals include the irregularly updated Intralinea and the more literary La nota del traduttore - perhaps not strictly speaking a periodical but I like it and it's my list, so hey.

French journals include recent issues of **Palimpsestes at the http://www.revues.org open-access journals site. The sociolinguistics journal **Glottopol sometimes carries useful translation articles.

Portuguese-language journals include Cadernos de Tradução, Scientia Traductionis, Confluências, *Babilónia. Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução, *Tradução em Revista  

From Colombia, Mutatis Mutandis; from Australia,*Translation & Interpreting. The international journal of Translation and Interpreting Research (has stolen the honours for longest journal title), from India, Translation Today; from Slovakia the SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation (honourable mention for least intuitively designed website).

More specialist journals include the Journal of Translation on Bible translation. On pedagogy of translation and interpreting, the Revista Electrónica de Didáctica de la Traducción y la Interpretación.

New Voices in Classical Reception Studies does just what it says on the tin.

Nice to see that back issues of New Comparison, the journal of the British Comparative Literature Association, are now downloadable as pdf files here, including some issues on translation.

Mona Baker's site has a useful list which also includes subscription-only journals. Another list here at the EST website or see Intute for more ideas. Comments on broken links are appreciated, as are suggestions of other open-access scholarly journals.

*added on 11 October 2010.
**added on 22 October 2010.