“Writers create national literatures and translators create a universal literature. Without translators, we writers would be nothing, condemned as we would be to living within the confines of our own language. We are all translated and we are all translators.”
José Saramago quoted in La Nación (Buenos Aires) on May 2, 2003
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NEWS
Call for Applications: The 2027 National Literary Translation Mentorships
La version française suit Administered by LTAC, QWF, and UNEQ Deadline: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET LTAC, [...]
THE LITERARY TRANSLATOR, AN IRREPLACEABLE DEVELOPER OF CREATIVE RARITIES / EL TRADUCTOR LITERARIO, UN IMPULSOR DE RAREZAS CREATIVAS IRREMPLAZABLE
*Spanish version down below* We live, as the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted two decades ago, in the Age [...]
Speech by Robert Paquin (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
Il n'est pas facile pour moi de parler des origines de notre association, puisqu'en 1975 je n'étais pas encore né... [...]
Speech by Howard Scott (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
The 50th anniversary of the LTAC makes me think of all the colleagues and friends I have met over [...]
Our Co-presidents’ Speech on the Occasion of LTAC’s 50th Anniversary
By Nicolas Calvé and Arianne Des Rochers Quand nous sommes devenus co-président·es à l’été 2023, un peu par accident, on [...]
Speech by Phyllis Aronoff (LTAC’s 50th Anniversary)
Dear colleagues and friends, I’m so happy to be here with you tonight celebrating the ATTLC/LTAC’s 50th anniversary! I [...]
