Tags: FranceFrench authors, as represented by the Permanent Council of Writers (CPE), have drawn up twelve proposals addressed to European policy makers. Their aim is to ensure that authors continue to enjoy freedom of expression and provide Europe’s biggest cultural...
Tags: WorldOn 15 October 2015 PEN International adopted the Quebec Declaration on Literary Translation and Translators. The text contains a six-point summary of the principles and objectives that PEN International intends to promote in the area of literary...
Tags: NorwayOda Myran Winsnes has been awarded the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for 2016 for her Norwegian translation of Samar Yazbek’s The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria. The prize, which is awarded each year by the Norwegian Booksellers’...
Tags: NorwayThe Russian translator Nargis Shinkarenko is the recipient of NORLA’s 2016 Translator’s Award for her translations of non-fiction literature from Norwegian into Russian. The announcement was made on 29 September in Oslo, during the celebration of...
Tags: NorwayDuring International Translation Day celebrations in Oslo on 29 September 2016, the Bastian Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation, the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators’ (Norsk Oversetterforening) annual translation prize, was awarded to...
