European Society for Translation Studies

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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EST Open Letter about publishers selling access to academic content

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 large language models (LLMs). Authors should be informed about such new uses that were not

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