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Best Translated Fiction award winners
The winners of this year's Best Translated Fiction award are :Poetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian HenryFiction: Tove Jansson’s The...
Impac criticised for 'conservative' Anglophone shortlist
This year's IMPAC shortlist has been criticised for overlooking books not first published in English, despite the prize's international basis.
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist
The Independent has announced the six shortlisted titles for its Foreign Fiction Prize: Visitation (Jenny Erpenbeck)Kamchatka (Marcelo Figueras)The Museum of Innocence (Orhan Pamuk)I Curse the River ...
NZ translation grants scheme recipients announced
The first recipients of funding from Creative New Zealand's Translation Grant Scheme have been announced. Norwegian publishing house Cappelen Damm will receive funds to translate Joy Cowley's children...
NZ Translation Grants Scheme Announced
Creative New Zealand has announced that it will support a new Translation Grant Scheme to encourage the translation of New Zealand literature into foreign languages. The scheme, which will be official...
Project Gutenberg aims for a billion free ebooks
Project Gutenberg wants to eventually see a billionfree ebooks offered in its online library.
Scholastic makes inroads into Arabic market
In the past three years, Scholastic has sold 17 million copies of 80 carefully-picked children's titles translated into Arabic.
Colmer shares IMPAC Dublin award
Amsterdam-based Australian translator David Colmer is the co-winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his translation of The Twin by Gerband Bakker (Scribe) from Dutch into ...
Amazon launches second publishing imprint
Amazon has announced a second publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing, that will specialise in books in translation.
Claudel wins Foreign Fiction Award
Script-writer Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report (MacLehose Press) has been awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010.
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