Applications open for Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers. - Priority to writers and translators. - Located in the Swiss Jura Mountains in Montricher. - Applications for 2024 are now open and will be accepted until September 14, 2023. fondation-janmichalski.com/en/residences

Thanks to those who attended Rhyme and Reason in Dante and the difficulty of translation: A talk by Simon West. Thanks to Di Cousens for taking photos.

The deadline for the AUSIT Translation Competition is extended to 6 August 2023 - more information here: drive.google.com/file/d/1jXazK8…

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Join us for our upcoming symposium about translating poetry! All the info: aalitra.org.au/events/transla…

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LITERARY TRANSLATION SLAM Catherine de Saint Phalle vs Frances Egan Moderated by Mireille Vignol November 15, 6pm–7.30pm at RMIT 80.09.12 (Building 80, level 9, room 12 - lecture theatre) 445 Swanston Street A FREE EVENT but please register at [email protected]

Authors’ Guild survey examining state of literary translators’ working conditions authorsguild.org/news/new-surve…

Watch the recording of our recent Translation Slam here: youtu.be/hwaivRinmo8

Applications are NOW OPEN for the online British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School 2024. sway.cloud.microsoft/MP0CL7BJhErg9M…

AALITRA TRANSLATION AWARDS 2024 Language: French $500 prize for Best Prose Translation (set piece) $500 prize for Best Poetry Translation (set piece) $250 prizes for runners-up in each category Thanks ISFAR Opens 28 February 2024 More to come aalitra.org.au

📢A new AALITRA event! A conversation between Daniel Hahn OBE and Lilit Žekulin Thwaites on Thursday 9th May, 2024 at 6pm, University of Melbourne. They will talk about translation, words and a great deal more! @translation Check out the AALITRA website aalitra.org.au/category/event…

A lively and interesting conversation between translator and author, Daniel Hahn and AALITRA president, translator Lilit Thwaites, was held in Melbourne this month. Here's the link to. the recording: youtube.com/watch?v=mBxBLR…

Last year's conference featured a few talks on literary translation. We hope this year's conference will shine a brighter spotlight on literary translation!

We will be holding the 2024 AALITRA Translation Awards Ceremony on Sept 18. Special thanks to our sponsors ISFAR, The French Embassy in Australia, and Future Leaders. ✉️RSVP by Aug 30. More info on our website.

AALITRA is delighted to announce an evening with acclaimed French-English translator, Stephanie Smee. 📅 Wed 25 Sep ⏰ 6:30-7:30pm 🌐 Hybrid 📍RMIT University, Melbourne More details via the registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Congratulations to our winners: Open Prose 1st place = Alice Heathwood Open Prose HM = Russell Goulbourne Open Poetry 1st place = Diane Delaurens Open Poetry HM = Shiva Motlagh-Elbakri Student Prose = Annette Mitchell Student Poetry = Heidi Bula