Norway: The Bastian Prizes 2022 to Kirsti Vogt and Hilde Stubhaug

Oct 11, 2022 | Norway, prizes

Tags: Norway, prizesThe Bastian Prizes for Outstanding Literary Translation were announced September 29th on occasion of International Translation Day. The Bastian Prize is the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators’ annual translation prize. The Bastian Prize...

International conference in Prague. Northern Wind of Change: Improving the working conditions of literary translators

Apr 27, 2022 | Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway

Tags: Czech Republic, Iceland, NorwayCzech Translators of the North, a professional organization comprising literary translators from Nordic languages ​​into Czech, is organizing the international conference Northern Wind of Change: Improving the Working Conditions of...

The 2021 Skjønnlitterære Oversetterfonds prize goes to our former delegate Ika Kaminka

Jun 20, 2021 | Norway

Tags: Norway‘Her translations are playful but always responsive; they reveal a translator who makes independent and vital choices, but at the same time resists the temptation to prettify the text according to her own preferences,’ one jury member said. ‘Literature...

Awarding of the Bastian Prize 2020 for translated literature into Norwegian

Oct 15, 2020 | Norway

Tags: NorwayThe Bastian Prize 2020 for Translated Literature Into Norwegian was announced on October 1st on the occasion of International Translation Day. The Bastian Prize is the annual translation prize of the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators (Norsk...

Tracing history through translation: International workshop on translation history in Oslo, Norway

Feb 7, 2020 | Norway

Tags: NorwayTranslation History is the main topic of this two-day workshop, organized by Traveling Texts (University of Oslo) and the Norwegian Encyclopedia of Translators (Norwegian Association of Literary Translators). The main purpose of the workshop is to gain...