Irish – Chinese Literature Translation Prize to Ma Ainong

Oct 1, 2014 | Ireland

Tags: IrelandMa Ainong, the Chinese translator of Claire Keegan’s 2007 short-story collection Walk the Blue Fields (Chinese title published by Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture Co. Ltd, 2011)  has been awarded  the inaugural Irish – Chinese Literature Translation...

Dublin IMPAC award for Juan Gabriel Vásquez and translator Anne McClean

Jun 13, 2014 | Ireland

Tags: IrelandThe 2014 International Impac Dublin Literary Award has gone to Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez for his novel The Sound of Things Falling (El ruido de las cosas al caer), translated by Canadian Anne McClean, and published in the UK by Bloomsbury....

LAF report on translation statistics in the UK and Ireland

Mar 5, 2013 | Ireland, United Kingdom

Tags: Ireland, United KingdomNew research from Literature Across Frontiers – Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland – reveals the first ever accurate figures for the number of translated titles published...

Translator Frank Wynne to be honoured at Irish International Translation Day (29 September 2012, Dublin)

Sep 19, 2012 | Ireland

Tags: IrelandThe Irish Translators’ and Interpreters’ Association (ITIA) will mark International Translation Day with a special evening event on 29 September 2012, free and open to all, to celebrate the achievements of Frank Wynne, widely acclaimed for his...

Irish call for translator bursary applications 2011 (Russia and Turkey)

Jan 19, 2011 | Ireland, Russia, Turkey

Tags: Ireland, Russia, TurkeyIreland Literature Exchange/Idirmhalartán Litríocht Éireann (ILE) invites applications from literary translators from Russia and Turkey who are working on the translation of a work of contemporary Irish literature and wish to spend a...