Welcome!

AALITRA is a national organization that promotes an interest in all aspects of literary translation. We sponsor public lectures and events on literary translation and hold periodic conferences with university bodies interested in the theory and practice of literary translation. We also distribute news of events, conferences and other initiatives relevant to translators.

Our Committee members are academics, students, practitioners and literary translators.

In addition, AALITRA publishes an online journal (The AALITRA Review) carrying peer-reviewed articles and translations.

If you have an interest in literary translation, and especially world literature in translation, please consider joining AALITRA.

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Acknowledgement of CountryThe AALITRA Association recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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2024 AALITRA Translation Awards

Mme Paule Ignatio and Mme Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie

The winners were announced on September 20, 2024 at an Awards Ceremony at the former French Consulate in Melbourne. The event was hosted by Mme Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie, Chair of the recently formed French-Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation (FACEF). Special guests were Mme Paule Ignatio, the new Consul-General for France in Melbourne and Vice-President of ISFAR, Professor Véronique Duché, Professor of French, Director of the Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne.

The winners are:

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 

Heartfelt thanks to AALITRA’s generous sponsors:


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