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Congratulations to the 2024 Translation Prize winners!

The 2024 EST Translation Prize has been awarded to Olaf Immanuel Seel and Charikleia Alatza, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI), Ionian University of Corfu, for the translation from German into Greek of a seminal work by Katharina Reiß (Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übersetzungskritik, 1971). A Greek translation will increase the accessibility of

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Nobel prize and translation

The Nobel prize committee failed to mention the importance of translation when announcing this year’s winner Han Kang, who writes in Korean, but at least The Korea Times acknowledges it. For a thoughtful reflection on the the role of translators in disseminating Korean literature, see this self-translated article by Sun Kyoung Yoon, a Translation Studies

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