“Writers create national literatures and translators create a universal literature. Without translators, we writers would be nothing, condemned as we would be to living within the confines of our own language. We are all translated and we are all translators.”
José Saramago quoted in La Nación (Buenos Aires) on May 2, 2003
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Call for Literary Translations Issue no 92: Writing Translation Spring 2021
ellipse (est. 1969), the first and best-known literary magazine of its kind, is seeking French and English translations of poetry [...]
From Pétrole to Paradise in Flames
During a two-week residency at the Maison de la littérature in February, Bobby Theodore and François Archambault worked together [...]
February 2020
La plus récente traduction de Nicolas Calvé vient de paraître chez Boréal. Jean-Baptiste décapité, ouvrage très original et très [...]
Call for Submissions – ellipse Issue No. 91: Translating Arabic in Canada
Arabic is spoken by some 375 million individuals, from Morocco to the Gulf, and from the Middle East to [...]
