Awards & Prizes
Kurt Beals has won the first-ever German Book Office Translation Prize. Glückwunsch! http://ow.ly/g5fcM
The submissions deadline to the Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize has been extended to January 15, 2013: http://ow.ly/g4V6h
SAND in Berlin is accepting translations from any language for a competition until Dec 15. Translators under 30 only: http://ow.ly/fXSLy
Calls
Call for Applications: 2013 Banff International Literary Translation Centre: http://ow.ly/g2Glt
Call for papers: “Reading Between the Lines: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in an Expanding Field.” http://ow.ly/g2G63
Discussion
“It’s like we’re walking parallel. We’re not holding hands, but we’re side by side.” Spencer on translating M-C Blais: http://ow.ly/fZu4A
CEATL’s Six Commandments of fair play in literary translation: http://ow.ly/g4oIh
Aesthetics and Meaning: The Balancing Act of Literary Translation:http://ow.ly/g4nWs
On Love and Translation: An Interview with Edith Grossman:http://ow.ly/g2WCD
Brian Zumhagen talks about some of the translation issues in The Canvas: http://ow.ly/fXSrY
Festivals
An inaugural Festival of Translators will be held 25-27 July 2013 at IIT Gandhinagar in Ahmedabad, India: http://ow.ly/g4WoS
Grants
The new application form for EU translation grants for publishers is now online: http://ow.ly/fXUFs
Magazines
The December 2012 edition of TWO LINES is now up online: http://ow.ly/fXS1v
New Books
New books translated by Suzanne Jill Levine: Nothingness in the Rough (http://ow.ly/g5eij) and Mundo Cruel ( http://ow.ly/g5ep8)
Had enough of the Best Books of 2012? Conversational Reading gets in there early with Books to Watch Out For In 2013: http://ow.ly/g5fvY
Reviews
Look no further for a review of two new Romanian books: http://ow.ly/g5eKS
A bilingual poetry collection looks at life through the lens of Islam:http://ow.ly/fZvr9
The new Three Percent podcast looks back at favorite translations of 2012: http://ow.ly/fZupu
Love German Books recommends books translated from German to English that came out this year: http://ow.ly/fXTcX