This may be of interest to some:
We wondered whether any of your students would be interested in work
placement opportunities currently available in 2009.
Knockhundred Translations offers work placements to students of all
nationalities. Students are offered full training and integration into the
company, a chance to observe and participate in a professional translation
environment and to get involved in the day-to-day running and activities of
a small, but busy translation company.
Please note that unless the student already possesses suitable translation
qualifications, we would not be able to offer translation experience during
the placement.
We can only take on full-time students for a minimum period of 2 months and
currently have vacancies from July 09 onwards.
To find out more about Knockhundred, please refer to our website -
www.knockhundred.com
If any of your students would be interested, we would certainly be keen to
hear from them.
With best wishes,
Melissa Ridley
cid:04FA2952-070F-45CA-8C96-B655142FCAF9@gateway.2wire.net
http://www.knockhundred.com/
telephone: 01544 388040
fax: 01544 388322
Friday, 6 February 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Literary Translation Summer School
The BCLT Literary Translation Summer School will be taking place from 19th to 25th July 2009, with workshops translating from French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese into English. Workshops will be led by Daniel Hahn, Nick Caistor, Nicky Harman, Shaun Whiteside and Sarah Adams. Writers in residence confirmed so far include Xinran, Eduardo Berti and Gonçalo Tavares. This is an event which Portsmouth students with an interest in literary translation have very much enjoyed in the past. Further details and registration forms from Catherine Fuller at BCLT (c.fuller@uea.ac.uk) or www.uea.ac.uk/bclt.
Monday, 2 February 2009
London translation workshop, FR, DE, AR, RU, ES
Sent on behalf of Lucy Brooks, Hon. Secretary, Translating Division Committee of the Chartered Institute of Linguists:
Translating Division, Chartered Institute of Linguists
Literary Translation Workshop
Saturday, 14 February 2009
University of Westminster
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
(Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus) –
The University is located in Upper Regent Street between Oxford Circus and Broadcasting House
This event is being organised as a natural extension to the very successful Literary Translation event held in February 2008. Many of you who came last time expressed great interest in attending a hands-on Workshop based on this theme and this year’s event is in response to that interest. Based on the results of the questionnaire sent to all of you, the five languages being featured are French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. A separate morning and afternoon session is being held to offer you greater flexibility and allow you to participate in two different language combinations. The workshops are being “facilitated” by experienced literary translators, some of whom also lecture in the subject.
Programme
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and networking
10:30 – 11:00 General Introduction
11:00 – 12:30 First Workshop
12:30 – 13:00 General Review / Q&A on First Workshop
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break – Delegates are free to make their own arrangements for lunch in one of the many nearby “eateries”.
14:30 – 16.00 Second Workshop
16.00 – 16.30 General Review / Q&A on Second Workshop
16:30 – Concluding remarks and close
Please apply on the tear-off slip to Julie Hobbs, Chartered Institute of Linguists, Saxon House,
48 Southwark St, London SE1 1UN, Tel: 020 7940 3144. APPLICATIONS BY 09 FEBRUARY 2009
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For organisational purposes, can you please tick the boxes for the two language workshops you’d like to attend. If you want to go to both workshops in the same language, then just tick that one box. Different texts will be worked on at each session.
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I should like to attend the Translating Division event on 14 February 2009.
Please find enclosed my cheque payable to: “Translating Division, Institute of Linguists”
Price incl. morning coffee:
Members of CIoL �35.00
Non-members �45.00
Students �25.00
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If you would like to receive advance notice of our events by email, please tick the following box o
Please address any queries to: Julie Hobbs at julie.hobbs@iol.org.uk
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
website for work placements in translation
Dear all,
The National Network for Translation website now has a page for work placements and stages in translation at http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/translation/placement/index.html. Please note that the site is in its early days so the number of placements currently listed is limited, but will grow over time.
There is a work placement handbook which gives full guidelines for students and prospective placement employers on how placements work and what students and employers can expect.
Carol
The National Network for Translation website now has a page for work placements and stages in translation at http://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/translation/placement/index.html. Please note that the site is in its early days so the number of placements currently listed is limited, but will grow over time.
There is a work placement handbook which gives full guidelines for students and prospective placement employers on how placements work and what students and employers can expect.
Carol
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
poetry translation website
Dear all,
The poetry translation centre website is looking very good at the moment: http://www.poetrytranslation.org/. It features lots of poems in three versions: the original, a literal translation and the final translation. This may be of interest not just to the literature lovers among you; the differences between the literal draft and the final translation are characteristic of translation in many fields. MATS languages included on the website are Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish.
Carol
The poetry translation centre website is looking very good at the moment: http://www.poetrytranslation.org/. It features lots of poems in three versions: the original, a literal translation and the final translation. This may be of interest not just to the literature lovers among you; the differences between the literal draft and the final translation are characteristic of translation in many fields. MATS languages included on the website are Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish.
Carol
Friday, 5 December 2008
Christmas in translation: best translated books of 2008
Dear all,
As 'tis the season (and despite the financial gloom), if anyone is still writing their Christmas list they may find some ideas at the 'Three Percent' website: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php.
Three Percent have just published their longlist of 'best translated books of 2008' on which there are many well-known names but some not so well known. [Allow me to put in a quick plug for 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', beautifully written in English and thoroughly enjoyable.]
You may also find other items on the website of interest, and there is an interview with the website's editor at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/12/fiction-in-tran.html.
Happy holidays to all!
Carol
As 'tis the season (and despite the financial gloom), if anyone is still writing their Christmas list they may find some ideas at the 'Three Percent' website: http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php.
Three Percent have just published their longlist of 'best translated books of 2008' on which there are many well-known names but some not so well known. [Allow me to put in a quick plug for 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog', beautifully written in English and thoroughly enjoyable.]
You may also find other items on the website of interest, and there is an interview with the website's editor at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/12/fiction-in-tran.html.
Happy holidays to all!
Carol
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