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A European e-zine on literary translation and translators

Counterpoint issue #10

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Counterpoint is an e-zine for everyone interested in literary translation. Whether you are a translator, publisher, agent, researcher, student or journalist, or just have a general interest in literature across borders, the European book market, and in the people that shape both, there will be something in Counterpoint of interest to you.

We report on what’s going on inside CEATL, and we look outside as well. We present feature articles about translators and translating and deal with the broad cultural, artistic and economic context of our work. We intend Counterpoint to live up to its name and be a place where independent and sometimes contrasting voices come together and form a stronger and more enthralling whole, much like the art of literary translation itself.

Counterpoint is free of charge and published twice a year in English and French.

From the editors No one, no language and no book left behind – CEATL takes action on AI - Francesca Novajra Special feature: The ambivalence of Machine Translation & AI - Damien Hansen Special feature: Musings on AI Translation - Brandon Mull Special feature: What’s new on the “unlikely frontier”? - Waltraud Kolb Special feature: On being translated by machines - David Diop Special feature: Copyright in light of generative AI - Gregor Strojin Special feature: AI and ‘small’ languages - Lavinia Braniște Special feature: AI and minoritised languages - Miquel Cabal Guarro THOT (Þot) – A small association with a big heart - Guðrún Catherine Emilsdóttir RSÍ – Raising Awareness of the Role of Professional Writers and Translators in Society - Þórunn Hafstað CEATL’s Click List
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Issue #9

From the Editors Knowledge is a powerful tool: Keeping abreast of European legal matters - Rafał Lisowski The Translators Association: Championing literary translators - Ian Giles The long road to Damascus. Interview with Arabic translator Djûke Poppinga - Hanneke van der Heijden Four languages, one association: A*dS - Barbara Sauser Increasing visibility and stagnating fees: A decade of literary translation in Poland - Ewa Rajewska ATLAS: Association for the promotion of Literary Translation - Jörn Cambreleng Stretching the limits of language: On ‘bad’ translation - Andreas Eckhardt-Læssøe CEATL’s Click List
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From the Editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_01 NULL.pdf) Where have you been to lately? Travelling through literature - Justyna Czechowska (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_02 NULL.pdf) Translators’ dictionaries in Sweden – and Europe - Lars Kleberg (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_03 NULL.pdf) The lost case of women translators or: The case of the lost women translators? - Elisabeth Gibbels (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_04 NULL.pdf) From nowhere to somewhere: Setting up a Slovenian translators’ residency - Tanja Petrič (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_05 NULL.pdf) What’s in a name? Indirect translation - Nayara Güércio (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_06 NULL.pdf) A game of Chinese whispers? Thoughts on relay translation - Nanna Lund (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_07 NULL.pdf) Get to know your translator. On the Czech Translators’ Association - Anna Tkáčová (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_08 NULL.pdf) Learning Latvian by translating its poetry. Experiences from the Translation in Motion project - Elizabeta Lindner (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_09 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_08_article_10 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_01 NULL.pdf) The CEATL Companion: A new online idea hub - Iztok Ilc (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_02 NULL.pdf) A Gap in the Clouds: Translating Japanese poetry - James Hadley (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_03 NULL.pdf) Babelkat – a new online platform for literary translators - Gesine Schröder (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_04 NULL.pdf) Can literary translation be taught? - Ros Schwartz (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_05 NULL.pdf) Rooms of their own – new residencies in the Western Balkans - Monica Dimitrova, Yana Genova & Neva Micheva (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_06 NULL.pdf) “Literary translators preserve the richness of the Slovene language” - Vesna Velkovrh Bukilica (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_07 NULL.pdf) Sustaining Europe’s multilingual literary heritage - Juliane Wammen (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_08 NULL.pdf) Translators caught in the crossfire: How to help Ukranian colleagues - Hanneke van der Heijden (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_09 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2022_07_article_10 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_01 NULL.pdf) Changing words – changing history. Translating offensive language - Johanna Hedenberg (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_02 NULL.pdf) Good vibrations: CEATL during the pandemic - Francesca Novajra (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_03 NULL.pdf) Reaffirming linguistic activism: Translating Yiddish poetry into Catalan - Golda van der Meer (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_04 NULL.pdf) “A place to put heads together” – On the EÜK in Straelen - Renate Birkenhauer (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_05 NULL.pdf) Small to tiny: A case of Icelandicisation? - Magnea Matthíasdóttir (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_06 NULL.pdf) Implementing directives the Austrian Way - Werner Richter (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_07 NULL.pdf) “The Finnish connection. On SKTL & KAOS" - Jaakko Kankaanpää & SKTL (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_08 NULL.pdf) “Authors and translators united. The #TranslatorsOnTheCover campaign" - Jennifer Croft & Mark Haddon (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_09 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_06_article_10 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_01 NULL.pdf) Translating your thoughts - Mascha Dabić (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_02 NULL.pdf) The new European Directive on authors’ rights - Cécile Deniard (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_03 NULL.pdf) Translation from Belarusan: No hobby for the sane - Anonymous (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_04 NULL.pdf) Embattled linguists: On the organisation Red T - Maya Hess (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_05 NULL.pdf) “Diversity only exists as long as there is translation” - Hanneke van der Heijden (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_06 NULL.pdf) Below standard? On translating children’s literature - Marta Morros Serret (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_07 NULL.pdf) Remuneration remains a delicate issue: On VdÜ - Andreas G. Förster & Claudia Steinitz (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_08 NULL.pdf) My Dictionnaire Royal – the pleasures of using a historical dictionary - Kim Witthoff (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_09 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2021_05_article_10 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_01 NULL.pdf) My three languages - Hanna Jankowska (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_02 NULL.pdf) Mad about graphs - Claudia Steinitz & Miquel Cabal-Guarro (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_03 NULL.pdf) Special feature: Literary Machine Translation - James Hadley (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_04 NULL.pdf) Special feature: Duel with DeepL - Hans-Christian Oeser (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_05 NULL.pdf) Special feature: CAT tools – the literary translator’s new assistant - Katja Zakrajšek (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_06 NULL.pdf) Special feature: Less room for engagement - Waltraud Kolb (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_07 NULL.pdf) Special feature: The future relationship of literary translation and AI - Morten Visby (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_08 NULL.pdf) From Romania to Belgium - Doina Ioanid & Jan H. Mysjkin (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_09 NULL.pdf) A long and sometimes bumpy road - Lena Jonsson (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_10 NULL.pdf) Variants – a lucky break for languages - Jacqueline Csuss (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_11 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_04_article_12 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_01 NULL.pdf) “This system has to change” - Valeria Pulignano & Hanneke van der Heijden (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_02 NULL.pdf) Teaching literary translation - Teodora Tzankova (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_03 NULL.pdf) My homeland is translation - Malika Embarek Lopez (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_04 NULL.pdf) From Albania to Bulgaria - Milena Selimi (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_05 NULL.pdf) Translators down the Covid hole - Eva Valvo (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_06 NULL.pdf) Protecting translators’ rights - Vladimir D. Janković (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_07 NULL.pdf) Needed and needy: My dictionary out of dictionaries - Tuncay Birkan (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_08 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2020_03_article_09 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_01 NULL.pdf) CEATL – As necessary as ever - Shaun Whiteside (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_02 NULL.pdf) In Germanic Lands - Olivier Mannoni (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_03 NULL.pdf) The birth of a boost book - Iztok Ilc (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_04 NULL.pdf) A celebration of otherness – Basque translations - Garazi Ugalde Pikabea (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_05 NULL.pdf) How does that translation land on your desk? - Anne Larchet (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_06 NULL.pdf) How Strade became part of the workers’ union - Eva Valvo (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_07 NULL.pdf) Too many unskilled cooks - Juliane Wammen (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_08 NULL.pdf) From Israel to Austria - Shiri Shapira (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_09 NULL.pdf) How to hum? A case of ancient Greek - Marcel Lysgaard Lech (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_10 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Counterpoint_2019_02_article_11 NULL.pdf)
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From the editors (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_01 NULL.pdf) Human rights for translators? - Morten Visby (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_02 NULL.pdf) Lost & found – Writing and reading translations - Frank Wynne (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_03 NULL.pdf) The board – The facts - Lara Hölbling Matković (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_04 NULL.pdf) Punching above our weight – Working for authors’ rights - Bjørn Herrman (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_05 NULL.pdf) A case of Celtic languages - Máire Nic Mhaoláin (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_06 NULL.pdf) Update from Romanian association ARTLIT - Lavinia Braniște (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_07 NULL.pdf) The charge of the Macedonian Association of Translators and Interpreters - Marija Spirkovska & Kalina Janeva (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_08 NULL.pdf) Dreaming Murakami – Bridging language and imagination - Nitesh Anjaan & Juliane Wammen (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_09 NULL.pdf) The challenges awaiting Marije de Bie - Hanneke van der Heijden & Gertrud Maes (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_10 NULL.pdf) CEATL’s Click List (https://ceatl NULL.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Counterpoint_2019_01_article_11 NULL.pdf)