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Congratulations to the 2024 Translation Prize winners!
31 Dec 2024Grants and scholarships awarded
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…
Apply by February 15th for an EST Conference and Training Grant!
16 Nov 2024General news
For the 2025 Congress year, the Board has increased the maximum number of grants to support EST members with limited or no means of financial support to attend Translation Studies conferences or training events. More details can be found here…
Nobel prize and translation
25 Oct 2024General news
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…
EST Open Access Prize 2025 – Call for submissions!
15 Oct 2024General news
The EST Open Access Prizes supports open access publication of outstanding journal articles. Based on the very positive feedback from our members, the committee has decided to continue offering this prize with the support of two publishing houses. One free-access…
EST Open Letter about publishers selling access to academic content
16 Sep 2024General news,Research Issues
The Board of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST) expresses its concern about the lack of transparency on the part of some academic publishers that have sold access rights to books and journal articles to companies engaged in developing…