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 Canadian winter during a COVID-19 quarantine, bearing witness to [...]
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 which reflect the concept of translation as authorship. For [...]
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 on Bobby’s translation into English of François’s Pétrole, a [...]
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 Europe and North America. In Canada, the 2011 Census [...]
In Memory of Enrique Servín Herrera
The poet and translator Enrique Servín Herrera, one of the greatest linguists and defenders of indigenous culture in Mexico and a long-time consulting translator at the Banff International [...]
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 two-week translation residency in Quebec City. From February 16 to [...]
Winter TRAD
Literary translators and translation enthusiasts! Don’t miss the inaugural event by the informal activities committee of the Montréal chapter of the Literary Translator’s Association of Canada (LTAC)! When? [...]
Poetry & Prose Readings: Post-Communist Literature in English Translation
Come to get a taste of post-communist literature in English translations after thirty years of freedom! The Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 has become [...]
The (Dis)Advantages of Freedom – Translating Post-Communist Literature Thirty Years after the Fall of Dictatorships
LTAC member Diana Manole is organizing and moderating a roundtable that will explore how thirty years of post-communist freedom of speech and market economy might have changed the [...]
Rémi Labrecque Awarded the 2019 John Glassco Prize
The Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC) announced the winner of the 35th John Glassco Literary Translation Prize on Saturday, September 21. Rémi Labrecque, from Saskatchewan, was chosen [...]