The Literary Translators' Association of Canada is honoured to support the Maison de la littérature's very first translation residency and, in doing so, to foster a space for [...]
Anne McLean’s English translation of Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Shape Of The Ruins (Quercus, MacLehose Press) has been shortlisted for 2019 Man Booker International Prize. The shortlist was selected [...]
Since last June, Genni Gunn has been Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, which distributed larger cheques to authors and translators this year. Her new position having kept [...]
Join us in welcoming new LTAC member K.B. Thors who was recently included on the longlist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for the translation from Icelandic [...]
From Michelle Hartman: My newest translation, A Sky So Close to Us, has just been published by Interlink books. Here are some details from the promotional material: “Interspersed with [...]
This Sunday, May 5, four of our members, Katia Grubisic, Paul Gagné, Phyllis Aronoff, and Howard Scott, will be taking part in a round-table discussion at the 21st edition [...]
The Literary Translators’ Association of Canada has partnered with the Frye Festival for three upcoming events in three Atlantic Canada cities: Thursday, May 2, 2019 from 6:30 PM to [...]
The deadline for the British Centre for Literary Translation’s International Summer School in Literary Translation & Creative Writing is this Monday, April 22nd. Founded in 1989 by W.G. Sebald [...]
We learned with shock last April that one of our founding members who was also an honorary member died in September 2005. Joyce Marshall was a distinguished writer and [...]
Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1913, George Johnston retired to the Quebec countryside after twenty-nine years as professor of English at Carleton University. Family man as well as [...]