“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
Translation Residency at the Maison de la littérature
The Literary Translators’ Association of Canada is elated to collaborate with the Maison de la littérature to offer a translator the opportunity to work for two weeks with his or her author on an ongoing translation project. To be eligible, a translator or their author must reside in Quebec. The translation residency will take place from February 7 to 20, 2021. The deadline to submit applications is Monday, November 16. Click here for the full submission guidelines.
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Video diary from the 2019 MDL Translation Residency
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October 2020
Félicitations à Catherine Ego et Benoit Laflamme, finalistes du Prix de traduction 2020 de la Fondation Cole, remis par [...]
Call for Applications: Translation Residency at the Maison de la littérature
The Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) and the Maison de la littérature have teamed up to offer a [...]
Interview with LTAC member Stephen Slessor on researching technology use by literary translators
Student member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC) and PhD student at the University of Ottawa’s School [...]
Celebrating World Translation Day
Literature in translation today touches on wide-ranging and often challenging themes: whether it’s watching the last of a northern [...]
September 2020
Jonathan Kaplansky's translation The Cry of Vertières: Memory, Liberation, and the Making of Haiti (by Jean Pierre Le Glaunec) [...]
Poetry in Translation: East Meets West
Canadian-American poet Molly Peacock stated that poetry was the most provincial form of art. Yet, this insight did not [...]
