Members please note:

The 2023 AGM will be held on Wednesday August 9, 5:30-6:45 at RMIT 80.04.06 (with a Zoom option).

The AGM will include a short presentation by Brian Nelson on  “Translating Emile Zola’s L’Assomoir: A Question of Voice.”

If members have not received an email with attachments about the AGM already, please send an email to aalitra.australia@gmail.com with the subject line Re: AGM, and asking for the attachments, etc. and please provide an indication of your attendance.

Rhyme and Reason in Dante and the difficulty of translation: A talk by Simon West

13 June 2023

Thanks to those who attended this event, which was organised by AALITRA in assocation with COAS.IT and the Dante Alighieri Socety.

Thanks to Di Cousens for taking photos.

The Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers is designed to provide an environment for creative writing and to support those involved in the written word.

Applications for 2024 are now open and will be accepted until September 14, 2023.

More info: https://fondation-janmichalski.com/en/residences

More info here: https://www.csaa.org.au/2023/02/call-for-submission-2023-csaa-aalitra-chinese-english-translation-competition/#:~:text=The%20winning%20entry%20will%20receive,at%20CSAA%20in%20December%202023.

AALITRA, in association with COASIT and the Dante Alighieri Society, presents

Rhyme and Reason in Dante and the Difficulty of Translation A talk by Simon West

COASIT, 199 Faraday Street, Carlton

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 6.30-8pm

Free event. Booking essential here

There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we sometimes say, as if rhyme and reason were two distinct modes of thought. This talk explores the role of rhyme in Dante’s Divine Comedy and poetry more widely, and the challenges of ’non-reasonable’ discourse for translation.

Simon West is the author of five collections of poetry, including Carol and Ahoy, published in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and The Ladder, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. He lives in Melbourne.

Image: Dante holding the Divine Comedy with scenes from the Divine Comedy and Florence in the background. Fresco by Domenico di Michelino, Florence, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Image sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

For our Summer 2023 issue, we are thrilled to partner with the Lontar Foundation to host a showcase of contemporary writing from the Indonesian—specifically literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry—to demonstrate the wealth that Indonesian Literature has to offer to the English-speaking world. Translators and authors whose work is featured in this showcase will each be paid USD80 per article. As with all sponsored showcases, submission fees will be waived; optional feedback can be requested for a fee of USD10. For translated prose, send up to 5,000 words; for poetry, up to 20 pages. Please include the original texts along with your translations. General guidelines below apply. Submit your best work via Submittable, and only if this is absolutely not possible, via email at editors@asymptotejournal.com with the subject header “INDONESIAN FEATURE”. Deadline: May 1st, 2023

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/submit/

The SALT Project will help bring the extraordinarily rich literature of the subcontinent to readers, writers, and scholars in publishing markets where it has been severely underrepresented.  https://salc.uchicago.edu/salt-project

Expressions of interest are called for the position of the editor role of The Australian Association for Literary Translation’s peer-reviewed online journal, The AALITRA Review.

The AALITRA Review publishes a variety of high-quality material concerned with literary translation, and translations of literary texts with a critical introduction and commentary by the translator. It hopes to foster a community of literary translators and to be a forum for lively debate concerning
issues related to the translation of literary texts.

Two small issues per year are published, with one large special issue potentially replacing the former in alternating years. The Review’s new editor(s) will work with the journal’s editorial team, which currently includes two co-editors and editorial assistants, as needed. The new editor(s) will be appointed in mid-2023 to provide sufficient time for the current co-editors to provide a handover to the incoming editor(s), who will fully take on the role in 2024. The position is unpaid, and the expected workload for the role is roughly 2-3 hours per week on average.

Expressions of Interest are open until the close of business on Friday 21 April. Those with a PhD in Translation Studies (or near completion) are highly encouraged to apply. Those interested should send a CV and short covering statement, with information on any editorial and publishing experience to the co-editors Lola Sundin (lola.l.sundin@monash.edu) and Cristina Savin (cristina.savin@monash.edu). Successful applicants will be invited for a short interview before the final selection is made.

The shortlists for the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have just been announced.

Thirty-five judges considered a record 850+ original works across 11 categories. A total of $350,000 in prize money will be awarded when the winners are announced at the State Library on Monday 22 May, making these the richest state-funded literary awards in the country.

Congratulations to all those who have been shortlisted and we thank everyone who submitted works for this year.

From: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-premiers-literary-awards?utm_source=printed%20collateral%20and%20social%20media&utm_medium=online%20and%20offline&utm_campaign=NSW%20Premier%27s%20Literary%20Awards&utm_content=PLA%20shortlists%20announcement_2023%20CID_a2bc862ab93b94483d6dbc50648618ad