Translation competition roundup: current competitions

These may interest some blog readers; please do pass the links along.  In order of entry deadline. 

Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize:

Translate a poem from any language, classical or modern, into English.

• Cash prizes
• Selected winning entries published in The Times
• All winning entries published in a booklet
• Closing date Friday 24 May 2013 

Full details at the Stephen Spender Trust website.  


American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes:

The annual ASF translation competition is awarded for the most outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose written by a Scandinavian author born after 1800.

The Nadia Christensen Prize includes a $2000 award, publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review, and a commemorative bronze medallion.

The Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award, given to an individual whose literature translations have not previously been published, includes a $1,000 award, publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review, and a commemorative bronze medallion.

Entry deadline is 7 June 2013. Full details at www.amscan.org/translation.html. 


Ernst Juenger Translation Competition: 

As part of an EU-funded research project hosted by the German Department at the University of Bristol, we invite translations of extracts from some of Ernst Jünger’s travel writings. Prize money will be given to FOUR entries, with one category limited to entries from current undergraduate students, and numerous book prizes will also be awarded.  The aim is to promote the study of Ernst Jünger’s works in English. The deadline for submission of entries is 1 July 2013. 

Full details here. 

Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize: 

The Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize was launched in 2010 to recognise the achievements of young translators at the start of their careers. This year our language of focus will be Portuguese. The winner’s name will be announced in October 2013, and he or she will receive £1000 and a selection of Harvill Secker titles. The winner will also participate in the British Centre for Literary Translation mentorship scheme, working with Margaret Jull Costa, and he or she will take part in Crossing Border festival in November 2013.

Entrants will be asked to translate the short story ‘O sucesso’ by Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa, and my fellow judges will be author Naomi Alderman, translator Margaret Jull Costa and literary reviewer Ángel Gurría-Quintana. The prize is open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 34, with no restriction on country of residence, and the deadline for entries is 2^nd August 2013.

 

The short story and details on how to enter are available at www.youngtranslatorsprize.com.

British Centre for Literary Translation mentor scheme, 2013

The British Centre for Literary Translation has announced the list of languages and mentors for 2013, with an amazing lineup of participating translators. All mentorships are for translation into English.
For more information, see the BCLT website:

Considering making a career in literary translation? Already embarked on your course but feel you could do with more help and support? If so, you might be one of the talented emerging translators we’re looking for to participate in the 2013 BCLT Translator Mentoring Scheme  (1 January – 30 June 2013)

Launched in 2011, the scheme has already produced twelve mentorship ‘graduates’ in languages ranging from Catalan to Polish. Several of the 2011-12 mentees have had work published as a result of contacts made and skills honed during the mentoring process, and our Arabic mentee, Emily Danby, was commissioned to translate a novel, The Scent of Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek, during her mentorship.

How to apply

Mentorships will be awarded in fifteen languages

• Arabic (mentor PAUL STARKEY)
• Danish (mentor BARBARA HAVELAND)
• Dutch (mentor DAVID COLMER)
• Italian (mentor HOWARD CURTIS)
• Greek (mentor DAVID CONNOLLY)
• Japanese (mentor MICHAEL EMMERICH)
• Norwegian (mentor DON BARTLETT)
• Polish (mentor ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES)
• Portuguese (mentor MARGARET JULL COSTA)
• Russian (mentor ROBERT CHANDLER)
• Swedish (mentor SARAH DEATH)
• Tamil (mentor LAKSHMI HOLMSTROM)
• Welsh (mentor TONY BIANCHI)

Mentees in these languages will be selected by open application.
To apply for a mentorship please submit the following:

• A brief, up to date CV
• A statement as to why you believe you would benefit from a mentorship and how you would use it
• A short sample of your translation work (not more than 2000 words) with accompanying notes

We expect most applications to come from translators living and working in the UK, but will consider all applications on their merits.

All enquiries and applications should be made by email to Sarah Bower, Scheme Co-ordinator at S.Bower at uea.ac.uk.

The deadline for applications is 31^st October 2012

Successful applicants will be informed by 30^th November 2012. Mentorships will commence immediately after the New Year holiday.

Free download: how to write clearly

Readers may be interested in the European Commission's publication 'How to Write Clearly'. This guide is available in all official languages of the European Community. It's part of their campaign for more straightforward, readable documentation (the same campaign which used to be called 'Fight the Fog'). 

It can be downloaded free in any of the official languages from the EU institutional bookshop.

jobs, internships, PhD funding etc.

A few translation opportunities, seen recently around the web:

An advertisement in the Guardian for an experienced Project Manager in London. Posted today. No deadline given.

The company Synonyme in Madrid is advertising for a multitasking English native speaker with French, German or Spanish as interpreter, translator and project manager. Also looking for conference interpreters. Contact a.edwards at synonyme.net. Found on the website of the Chartered Institute of Linguists; other positions also advertised.

The pharmaceutical company Roche is looking for an English Sprachexperte for their language service in Basel (German-English translation, translation revision, etc.). Found via the ITI website. Further details here.

Seen on the BDÜE website (job postings can be found under Aktuelles):

The company Comlogos is looking for a project manager based in Stuttgart. The company also seems from their website to offer internships. Other posts also regularly advertised.

In Europe, the EPSO competitions for Estonian, Irish, Latvian and Portuguese translators close on 14 August. The link is here. The deadline for translation traineeships in the European institutions beginning in March 2013 is 31 August. There are two rounds of these a year; more information here.

Two PhD studentships at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University for the academic year 2012-13. The scholarships cover fees and maintenance for the first year of study; may be extended subject to suitable progress, etc. 

There's a PhD studentship offered in Denmark in the field of intercultural business encounters which may interest translation researchers. Deadline is imminent: 15 August.

As always, the writer of this blog makes no guarantees about, and has no vested interest in, any of these opportunities. Good luck to any of our readers who apply.

Rosetta Foundation seeks volunteer translators

Tweeted by the Rosetta Foundation: Urgently seeking volunteer translators and proofreaders from ENGLISH into SERBIAN, TURKISH, PORTUGUESE, and DUTCH. Email info at therosettafoundation.org.

More information about the work of the Rosetta Foundation here.

Literary translation workshops and summer schools, 2012

Lots of fun stuff on this summer in the way of hands-on translation workshops...

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School, now running for over a decade, takes place in Norwich from 22 to 27 July 2012 with a distinguished line-up of writers and translators. This year's language combinations are Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian and Spanish into English. (Alas, the announced English to Italian workshop seems not to be taking place this year.) Deadline for registration is 8 May.

The BCLT is also a partner in a new Arvon Foundation literary translation workshop which will run at Lumb Bank in Yorkshire from 27 August to 1 September 2012. Places by selection: submit one double-spaced page of translation and the same text in the original to lumbbank at arvonfoundation.org by 29 June 2012.

There are fees for both of these events but some financial support may be available; see here for Arvon Foundation Grants and here for more information about travel grants, etc., for the BCLT Summer School. 

The BCLT is also running a literary translation workshop at the upcoming Translation Conference in Doha, Qatar from 29 April 2012.

In London, the Use your Language, Use your English summer school is taking place once again from 9 to 13 July 2012; see this previous post for more information. Source languages include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. There is also a workshop on editing.

The Use your Language, Use your English project also includes a free online translation component in seven language combinations (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish into English, as well as editing). To register and gain access to the materials, email useyourcontact at bbk.ac.uk.



Lastly, for translators of German children's literature there is a really nice-looking workshop in September 2012 organised by the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur with the support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Funding is available to cover participation:

Bereits zum dritten Mal laden die Robert Bosch Stiftung und der Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (AKJ) ins Hamburger Elsa-Brändström-Haus zu einer Übersetzerwerkstatt ein, die sich speziell der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur widmet.

Kinder- und Jugendliteratur öffnet die Tür in die Welt des Lesens und erweitert den Horizont der jungen Leser in kultureller und sprachlicher Hinsicht. In diesem Vermittlungsprozess über Sprachgrenzen hinweg kommt den Übersetzern eine wesentliche Rolle zu.

Daher bieten die Robert Bosch Stiftung und der AKJ 15 professionellen Übersetzern vom 16. bis 21. September 2012 die Möglichkeit, sich mit aktuellen Tendenzen der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur sowie spezifischen Übersetzungsproblemen des Genres auseinanderzusetzen.

Die Teilnehmer werden mit dem Übersetzer Tobias Scheffel konkret an Texten arbeiten, sie werden neben den Autoren Isabel Abedi und Andreas Steinhöfel auch Illustratoren, Lektoren und Kritiker kennenlernen und Informationen zu Fördermöglichkeiten und bestehenden Netzwerken für Übersetzer erhalten.

Bis zum 2. Mai 2012 können sich professionell arbeitende Übersetzer deutschsprachiger Kinder- und Jugendliteratur bewerben, die aus dem Deutschen in ihre jeweilige Muttersprache übersetzen. Die Werkstatt ist offen für Bewerber aller Sprachen. Übersetzer aus „kleinen“ Sprachen werden schwerpunktmäßig berücksichtigt. Die Teilnehmer erhalten einen Reisekostenzuschuss sowie Unterkunft im Doppelzimmer und Verpflegung für die Dauer der Werkstatt.

More information at http://www.jugendliteratur.org/veranstaltung-45-kein_kinderspiel.html.

Use Your Language, Use Your English summer school 2012

More information about the Use Your Language, Use Your English translation summer school, courtesy of Ros Schwartz who will be leading the French workshop. Discount for students; bursaries available.

Use your language, Use your English

This innovative translator training project is for native English speakers with one or more other language/s at an advanced level who wish to develop their translation and editing skills. All our courses, online and workshops, are delivered by leading professionals. For information, including FAQs, biographies of the tutors and organisers, and further details on each activity outlined below, see:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/european/about-us/use-your-language-use-your-english

We will be running four activities in 2012:

- The summer school: following the great success of last year’s Summer School, we are delighted to announce the expanded Summer School 2012. This five-day event will take place at Birkbeck University of London (43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD) on 9-13 July 2012. It comprises courses in translation into English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish – each language subject to a minimum group-size of five students – and an editing skills course for all. There will also be games, a competition, meet-the-publishers, and guest lectures and workshops.

Full fee: £400; student fee: £250. Bursaries available. Online booking will open on the website in February 2012.

Extracts from the feedback on last year’s Summer School:

‘Thank you so much for a brilliant course. It was wonderful to meet so many inspiring people, both staff & students alike. I felt really privileged to be working with “la crème de la crème” of the translation world.’

‘It gave me confidence & showed me that translation as a career is a feasible option. It also illustrated the wide variety of options open to people with language skills.’

‘I enjoyed everything! It was amazing being able to experience two tutors of translation with their differing styles; being able to prioritise the techniques in two different languages, plus attending all the fascinating talks. The “fun” bits were great too, ie the translation slam & game.’

-       The online programme (free of charge): This comprises seven courses in translation into English (from Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) and one course in editing. To register, email: useyourcontact@bbk.ac.uk

-       Exams: from February 2012, you will be able to take an examination in any of our languages/editing; fee £250. Booking for this too will be online via the website.

-       The database (DATE): From March 2012, if you have passed our exam, you will be able to enter yourself on our Database for Academic Translators & Editors [DATE] which will be searched by anyone looking for an excellent Anglophone translator/editor.

Volunteer internship in San Francisco and job in Wiesbaden

MBETraining and Translations are hiring a permanent in-house German to English translator and trainer in Wiesbaden.

The microlending organisation Kiva is looking for a part-time translation volunteer co-ordinator in San Francisco, three days a week for six months from 3 October, to work with its 300 translation volunteers. Please note that this is an unpaid internship. Kiva are looking for speakers of French, Russian, Portuguese or Spanish.

internships and job in translation and localisation

SAP in Vancouver are looking for a computer science graduate for an internship in translation tool development. Zooppa in Seattle is looking for interns in campaign management and localisation. Some remuneration is offered. Languages include French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and English.

Matrix Communications AG in Munich are looking for a translator into French or English for a full-time in-house position.

Summer Programme in Portuguese and guest lecture, Dartmouth, MA

Here's an event that may interest readers in Massachusetts (Google says we have some...!):

UMass Dartmouth Summer Program in Portuguese

Prof. Christopher Larkosh, director

Lecture in Translation Studies 

by Prof. Moira Inghilleri, University College London

Tuesday, July 12, 2011
DION 106, 12:00 p.m.

The UMass Dartmouth Summer Program in Portuguese is now in its 18th year of offering intensive courses in Portuguese language, Portuguese-English translation, and Lusophone literatures and cultures at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. With the aim of encouraging our international group of students to consider careers in translation, the Program has invited a number of scholars in the field of translation studies over the past few years to meet with students and present their research; past guests have included Prof. Edwin Gentzler, well-known specialist on theories of translation, and Prof. Donaldo Macedo, English translator of the works of Paulo Freire, seminal figure in Brazilian liberation pedagogy. 

This year we are honored to be able to welcome Prof. Moira Inghilleri from University College London, who will give a talk on the following topic:

Communicative ethics, translator visibility and linguistic/cultural borders

Translators of spoken and written language operate in contexts which can foster ambiguity, contradiction and misunderstanding, all of which are resolvable only in relation to the different communicative objectives at play amongst the participants involved. The notion of the impartial and neutral translator has long been a crucial guiding ethical principle of the profession. However, particularly in contexts where communicative objectives are tied to specific social, political or economic agendas, maintaining impartiality can work against the goal of mutual understanding. In this seminar, I present an alternative view of ethical communication which, instead of encouraging translators to remain interactively invisible, calls for a greater recognition of the crucial link between ethical practice, translator visibility, and more mutually-effective dialogue amongst linguistically and culturally diverse speakers and texts.

Bio: Moira Inghilleri is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London. She is the author of Interpreting Justice: Ethics, Politics and Language (Routledge, available November 2011) and the forthcoming Sociological Approaches to Translation and Interpreting (St. Jerome Publishing). She is co-editor of The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication. 

Prior to joining the journal as co-editor in 2011, she guest-edited two special issues: Bourdieu and the Sociology of Translating (2005) and Translation and Violent Conflict (2010, with Sue-Ann Harding). Her research has appeared in Translation Studies, The Translator, Target and a number of edited collections. 

jobs in games localisation

For any enthusiastic gamers reading this blog, Testronic Laboratories in the UK are advertising for localisation game testers with a wide range of languages (must be native speakers): German, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Portuguese, Brazilian Mexican (a new one on me - possibly Brazilian Portuguese and Mexican Spanish? or has gaming in the Americas developed interesting new transnational articulations??), Czech, Polish and Japanese. They are also looking for a Japanese translation lead technician.

Translators without Borders

The volunteer translation organisation Translators Without Borders is expanding:

The mission of Translators without Borders (initially founded in France as Traducteurs sans frontières) is to translate knowledge for humanity. Translators without Borders has met that mission through quality humanitarian translations provided by a community of trained translators to vetted NGOs who focus on health, nutrition and education. On average,Translators without Borders volunteers translate millions of words per year, focusing on three types of humanitarian translations: crisis translations needed urgently to inform people in crisis, translations that support an NGO’s operations, and educational translations that directly support people in need. The non-profit organization’s vision is to expand its open digital platform to help make knowledge more accessible worldwide through humanitarian translations. The initial goal is to assist humanitarian organizations with two million dollars worth of free translations per year.

The organisation is currently seeking volunteer translators and proofreaders in any combination from or to English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

You can find out more about the clients TWB works with at the TWB Youtube channel.

internships, traineeships, stages, work placements

It's the time of year when completing students begin to think about translation placements. There's a work placements tag on this blog with some suggestions, and I thought it might be helpful to post a few more links, some of them to regularly recurring positions, some seen in passing on the web.

The usual caveats apply. Remember that internships should benefit you at least as much as the company. Check the conditions carefully. Find out about the company; check that you are going to get useful experience and supervision, not just tea-brewing and photocopying. Be a bit cautious about internships with no remuneration (though be warned that not all internships are paid). Be wary of internship advertisements which have linguistic errors/are written badly; these are unlikely to be serious companies. Steer clear of companies who ask for payment of any sort for internship schemes.

There are translation traineeships at the Directorate-General for Translation at the European Commission.

These pay a living allowance of about 1000 euro a month. There are also paid and unpaid translation traineeships in the European Parliament. These have quite specific requirements.

SDL advertise regularly for interns for their Sheffield office. The scheme is open to students whose first language is French, German, Italian, Dutch, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, and European Portuguese. The FAQs are here. Applications for the next batch of placements in October will be accepted from early June to mid-July.

You could keep an eye on the Euractiv website, which sometimes has useful-looking internships: currently advertising an English to French translation internship (seems unpaid but with some expenses reimbursed).

Argos Translations in Poland advertise an internship scheme for students and graduates of Krakow universities.

Some more links that you might find worth following up, depending on your location/interests/language combinations:

http://www.wolfestone.co.uk/translation_internships.php

http://www.alternatives.ca/en/opportunity/translation-internship

http://www.equinux.com/us/company/jobdetails.html?-recid=140 (DE-EN, based in Munich)

http://www.cris.unu.edu/fileadmin/user_upload/Translation_internship.pdf

This videogame localisation company in Berlin is looking for interns working from English into Czech, Polish, German, Italian and Spanish:

http://www.anakan.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=33&Itemid=91

http://www.ctsll.com/about_internship.php (US company)

http://www.crellin.de/deutsch/jobs/internships.htm (German to English; includes translation test as part of the application)

http://www.englishpen.org/aboutenglishpen/vacancies/volunteeringandinternships/ (for students with an interest in literary translation)

http://www.internshipinlondon.com/translation/internship-in-translation/176 (currently open to speakers of French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch).

Please note that the information above is presented in good faith, and neither the University of Portsmouth nor the writer of this blog makes any claims or accepts any liability in regard to any of these links.

(A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.)

Anyone considering volunteer translation as a way of gaining experience might also like to keep an eye on the volunteering tag.

Le Fabrique des traducteurs (in French)

This looks like a great opportunity for young French translators with some experience of literary translation:

 

Le Collège international des traducteurs littéraires (CITL), à Arles, accueille depuis le 1^er septembre « La Fabrique des traducteurs ». Ce programme a pour objectif de donner à de jeunes traducteurs en début de carrière l’occasion de travailler avec d’autres traducteurs expérimentés et de mieux connaître le paysage de la traduction et de l’édition dans les deux pays.

Les enjeux

Face au recul de l’enseignement du français dans le monde, face au vieillissement du vivier des traducteurs et aux difficultés qu’ils ont à exercer leur métier, l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération qualifiée, familiarisée avec les réalités des métiers du livre et apte à jouer un rôle de passeur entre le français et la langue d’origine est une nécessité.

La Fabrique des traducteurs vise à renouveler les générations de traducteurs étrangers (traduisant du français vers leur langue), en s’appuyant sur un travail en tandem. Les jeunes traducteurs traduisant vers le français y trouveront un précieux dispositif de perfectionnement : une situation de bilinguisme idéal où chacun bénéficie de l’apport d’un locuteur naturel.

L’objectif est aussi de développer le réseau des traducteurs professionnels, en  constituant un noyau de traducteurs d’une même génération, qui formeront à moyen terme un réseau international d’entraide et de compétences. Pour chaque session linguistique, trois jeunes traducteurs traduisant du français vers leur langue travailleront avec trois jeunes traducteurs traduisant dans l’autre sens.

A plus long terme, la visée est enfin de favoriser le repérage ou l’émergence de structures qui apportent un soutien au travail des traducteurs dans leur pays, et de nouer de nouveaux partenariats.

 
Principes de fonctionnement

La Fabrique des traducteurs repose sur un triple tutorat :

-       Un axe « vertical », grâce à la présence conjointe de deux traducteurs expérimentés traduisant respectivement du français et vers le français. Ces tuteurs guideront le travail.

-       Un axe « horizontal », les jeunes traducteurs se choisissant mutuellement pour traduire en tandem. Chaque traducteur bénéficie ainsi pour son travail en cours de la compétence d’un locuteur naturel, ce qui apporte un enrichissement mutuel décisif.

-       L’inscription dans un réseau :

-          Dix semaines du travail sur projets, où le travail en tandem alterne avec  des séances plénières.

-          Des rencontres avec des professionnels du livre (éditeurs, directeurs de collection, responsables de droits étrangers, association de traducteurs, responsables) de revues ou opérateurs institutionnels ...

Public concerné

Les langues concernées pour 2010 sont successivement le russe, le chinois, en 2011, l’italien (du 10 janvier au 19 mars 2011) puis l’arabe, l’espagnol et le portugais.

Le programme s’adresse à de jeunes traducteurs en début de carrière. Les candidats à ce programme seront porteurs d’un projet personnel de traduction. C’est sur ce projet et sur des critères d’excellence qu’ils seront choisis.

Conditions d’éligibilité :

·             être âgé de 35 ans maximum 

·             être entièrement disponible du 10 janvier au 19 mars 2011 pour la session "italienne"

·             justifier d’un projet de traduction autour du domaine linguistique défini 

·             justifier d’une traduction publiée de la même langue : 1 ouvrage ou 2 textes en revue ;

·             ne pas avoir bénéficié d’une aide du Cnl depuis au moins 2 ans.

Date limite de dépôt des dossiers :

8 octobre (langue : ITALIEN)

Déroulement du séjour

-      Chaque session prévoit la venue de deux traducteurs expérimentés différents dans chaque sens, chacun venant 3 à 4 semaines. Le temps restant est mis à profit pour le programme de rencontres professionnelles et la préparation de la présentation publique.

-      L’atelier se déroule au Collège international des traducteurs littéraires (Arles). Le lieu offre à ses résidents la possibilité d’utiliser une bibliothèque spécialisée de 17 000 ouvrages. L’hébergement se fait en appartement au centre ville d’Arles (3 appartements avec espaces communs et chambres individuelles.)

-      Les textes traduits au cours des sessions feront l’objet d’une présentation publique de clôture. Cette présentation sera précédée d’un travail de mise en voix, encadré par un professionnel de la scène qui sera bilingue.

-      La publication d’une brochure diffusée à 300 exemplaires auprès des professionnels du livre et présentant les travaux réalisés donnera une visibilité au programme et à ses participants.

-      Les participants pourront assister aux événements littéraires organisés par le CITL (cycle de découverte la littérature française contemporaine, ...)

Renseignements et inscription

-      Les dossiers de candidature sont à retirer auprès du

Centre National du Livre

Hôtel d’Avejan                                                   

53, rue de Verneuil

75343 Paris cedex 07

Tél. : 01 49 54 68 68 / Fax : 01 45 49 10 21

Les candidats retenus seront boursiers du CNL. Ils percevront la somme  de 5000 € pour un séjour de deux mois et demi dont 1400 € seront dus au CITL en tant que participation aux frais du programme.

-      Les dossiers sont à retourner par fax ou par mail au Centre national du livre, à l’attention de :

Valérie ICHOU

Bureau des Auteurs

53 rue de Verneuil

75343 PARIS CEDEX 07

Tél. 01 49 54 68 12

Mél. valerie.ichou@culture.fr

Financement

coproduction

ATLAS-CITL

Culturesfrance

Centre National du Livre (CNL)

Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF).

Région Provence Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur  (PACA)

Le Collège international des traducteurs littéraires (CITL) est géré par l’association ATLAS, qui organise les Assises de la Traduction Littéraire en ArleS.

CITL - Espace Van Gogh, 13200 Arles - Tél. 04 90 52 05 50 Fax 04 90 93 43 21 www.atlas-citl.org

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.

job sites, placements and stuff

A few more placement and jobs ideas for those of you graduating this summer (see the jobs, careers in translation and work placement tags for older entries).

Try the keywords 'translation' and 'translator' on www.totaljobs.com or www.eurolondon.com/foreign-language-jobs.htm. The agency Synonyme are advertising for more experienced translators with an existing specialism to join their team. They ask for a translation test as well as an application form - the texts are under the 'Translator Zone' tag. Worth looking at! Other interesting resources there too.

The company SDL in Sheffield offers six-month placements to students whose *first language* is French, German, Italian, Dutch, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish or European Portuguese. They also have a jobsearch site with more internships advertised: go to their homepage and click on 'careers'.

And other stories...

I have recently heard from our colleague Stefan Tobler about a new publishing initiative he and some fellow translators have developed called 'And other stories'. It's a grassroots publisher which aims to publish good contemporary fiction that might not find a mainstream publisher elsewhere. The project doesn't have a website yet but it has librarything reading groups for Spanish, Portuguese and I think now German too. See this piece about it on the Words Without Borders site. For anyone interested in exciting contemporary fiction in those languages. It sounds like a fantastic project and we look forward to hearing more about it...

conference on technical translation 28-29 May, Lisbon

There's a useful-looking conference on technical translation taking place in Lisbon in May, which may be of interest to those of you working in the field of technical translation. It seems to be quite practical. Workshop languages English, French, Portuguese. More information here.

Translation events Foyles, London, November

Many thanks to Jon Evans, who has just drawn my attention to these translation events happening next month as part of Foyles Bookshop's Festival of Ibero-American Literature. The whole festival looks great, but for translation students events of most interest include:

Saturday 14 November

13.45 – 15.00 The Art of Translation
Translation is an essential part of the literary market in a globalised world, opening the gates to foreign narratives in the luxury of our own language. But what are the challenges behind translation, and what ethical questions does it pose? Join us for an exciting session with the UK’s leading figures in literary translation, Dr Stefan Tobler, Professor Amanda Hopkinson and Professor Peter Bush, as they discuss their crucial role in bringing Latin American and Hispanic literature to the UK.
Tickets: Free, email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place

15.15 – 16.30 The Art of Translation: A Closer Look
Get up close to the particulars of translation as Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez and translator Anne McLean discuss their work on The Informers, 9780747596516 shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and one of the most successful Latin American novels to be published in the UK in recent years.
Tickets: Free, email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place