The Australian Association for Literary Translation Inc is a national organisation whose purpose is to promote an interest in all aspects of literary translation. We pursue this goal in multiple ways. We sponsor public lectures, symposia and other events concerned with literary translation. We distribute news of events, conferences and other initiatives relevant to translators. We publish an online journal (The AALITRA Review) carrying peer-reviewed articles and translations. We maintain a database of Australian literary translators. We periodically offer translation awards on the basis of a competition for the best translation of a short prose text or a selected poem from a designated LOTE.
Our Committee members are academics, students, practitioners and literary translators.
If you have an interest in literary translation, and especially world literature in translation, please consider joining AALITRA. To keep up with our latest news and to hear more about literary translation from an Australian perspective, please check the ‘AALITRA events‘ and ‘Other Events‘ pages, follow us on Facebook and contact us to spread your literary translation news.
Acknowledgment of Country: The Australian Association for Literary Translation Inc recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.
The AALITRA Review
The AALITRA Review’s theme for its issue nr. 22 (2026) is Self-Translation.
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AALITRA Translation Awards 2024
AALITRA Database of Australian Literary Translators
Launched in 2022, this database is intended to help users easily find experienced Australian translators of literary texts from a Language Other Than English (LOTE) into English, and/or from English into a LOTE. The database works both as a record of those working in our community and to facilitate links with publishers and authors.
If as an AALITRA member you have published translations into or out of LOTE and would like to be included in the database, please email your details to robertsavage094@gmail.com
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