This #CeatlFriday comes at the end of four bustling days at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair! We participated in several events on all things literary translation. Thanks to our friends and partners, the Translators’ Café and NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad. See you next year!

We have a rich programme this year at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Do come and see us! We'll be happy to chat.
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Let’s take a look at one of our members this #CeatlFriday: the Croatian Literary Translators’ Association (DHKP)!
Read all about them by scrolling down our homepage:
www.ceatl.eu (English)
www.ceatl.eu/fr (French)
#EuropeanTranslators

This #CeatlFriday we’d like to take you on a trip to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden. It’s open year round to applicants from all countries, but gives priority to those from the Baltic Sea region and Nordic countries. Info: www.bcwt.org

For this week’s #CeatlFriday, we’d like to take you back to the #StrasbourgConference in October 2024, with the video “Gathering data on literary translation markets and mapping grant opportunities”
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UK: "Human Authored" scheme launched by SoA The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a Human Authored scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books.

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This #CeatlFriday we'd like to take you on a trip to Translation House Looren near Zurich. Open to all nationalities and language combinations, it offers a broad range of further education opportunities for literary translators. Read more at:
looren.net/en/about-us/...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

This #CeatlFriday let’s honour women on #InternationalWomensDay 8th March! Many lit translators are women, talented, tirelessly multitasking, experts in navigating differences in a precarious field, who deserve to be visible, respected and fairly compensated – like everyone else.

CEATL at the London Book Fair We'll be at the London Book Fair next week, and CEATL President Francesca Novajra will be taking part in two events:

If you're in London next week, come join us!
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CEATL and 13 other organisations call on the European Parliament's CULT Committee to put forward ambitious measures in the report "Cultural and creative sectors in the age of AI". - CEATL CEATL and 13 other organisations representing authors, performers, and other artists and cultural workers call on the European Parliament's CULT Committee and rapporteur Zoltán Tarr to put forward amb...

CEATL and 13 other organisations call on the European Parliament’s CULT Committee to put forward ambitious measures in the report “Cultural and creative sectors in the age of AI”. Read more here: shorturl.at/Ck1rT

This #CeatlFriday we launch a new feature: #CeatlReadingTips! We’ll share useful resources from various associations around Europe. Let’s begin with a report about the impact of GenAI by the UK Society of Authors and others. Read it here:

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This week for #CeatlFriday we would like to introduce ARTLIT, the Romanian Literary Translators’ Association. Read all about them on our website: www.ceatl.eu

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Are you new to literary translation? Because if you are, this is just for you!
Illustrated by our very own Nina Frey, the guide presents articles that are brief, practical and informative, and we will keep the page updated with new entries and personal experiences, so stay tuned!
guide.ceatl.eu

This week for #CeatlFriday we share the video of the panel discussion on “Translating and Publishing as a Political Act” from our #StrasbourgConference in October 2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrPB...

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This #CeatlFriday we take you on a trip to the Château de Seneffe in Wallonia, Belgium, to a residency for authors and translators of Belgian francophone literature organized by Passa Porta, international house of literature in Brussels. Apply by 20/02/26:
www.passaporta.be/en/in-reside...

Last call, literary translators. It will only take you 5 minutes!

Taking you on a trip to… This #CeatlFriday we would like to introduce a new feature where we’ll present literary translation residencies throughout Europe. Each month you’ll see a new home-from-home workspace that you can apply for. Stay tuned!
Read more: companion.ceatl.eu?page_id=1015

This #CeatlFriday, we would like to introduce yet another of our member associations: Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana. Read all about AELC by scrolling down our homepage: www.ceatl.eu
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CEATL's AI survey CEATL is reaching out to invite you to participate in a survey regarding literary translation and artificial intelligence.

Hi everyone,
If you are a literary translator, please fill our survey ! It only takes a few minutes and we need your feedback to get a clearer picture 😊
www.ceatl.eu/ceatls-ai-su...

Welcome to the first #CeatlFriday of 2026! Let’s greet the New Year with a recap of our Instagram project #WeekInTranslation that took us around Europe in the past year. Huge thanks to our colleagues who shared a week in their daily lives with us
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Season’s greetings from the human literary translators of CEATL! Take some well deserved rest, read good books and enjoy quality time with your dear ones. #CeatlFriday will be back on the 8th January with news and inspiration from the translation world!
#protecthumancreativity

France: Harlequin moves to AI The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin we...

French translators for Harlequin are being told they will no longer be needed - French organisations react:
www.ceatl.eu/france-harle...

15 години ЗПРМ / MATA's 15th Anniversary YouTube video by ЗПРМ / MATA

Happy 15th anniversary to our member, Macedonian Association of Translators and Interpreters! Enjoy a celebration video 🎉
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Books, AI, and the Future of Translation By Kate Tough

Kate Tough on the threat of AI translations.
themadridreview.com/f/books-ai-a... #translation #translator @ceatl.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @europeanwriterscouncil.eu

This #CeatlFriday Rebekka Zeinzinger from Austria tells us about her week in #WeekinTranslation. She translates from Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian to German. Visit our Instagram page for the whole story: www.instagram.com/ceatlnews/
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IA i drets d’autor: una imatge en moviment És una sensació semblant a mirar una foto moguda: en els darrers tres anys, la intel·ligència artificial generativa (IAG) ha inundat gairebé tots els

Sebastià Portell, of AELC (Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana) and EWC (European Writers’ Council), writes about Gen AI and authors’ rights in The New Barcelona Post.

in Catalan: www.thenewbarcelonapost.cat/ia-drets-aut...
in Spanish: www.thenewbarcelonapost.com/ia-derechos-...

This #CeatlFriday we bring you a #WeekInTranslation of our colleague Jolanta Pētersone from Latvia! See the Glass Mountain of Books, Meta the Cat, the icy streets of Riga getting ready for Christmas, and so much more on our Instagram page at:
www.instagram.com/ceatlnews/

On this #CeatlFriday, check out our panel “Literary Translation and Artificial Intelligence – Useful Tool or False Friend?” held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_1Y... (EN)
youtu.be/F7oQALJthp0?... (FR)
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