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A key event for children’s book translators
Launched in 2004 by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Translators’ Centre acts as a hub for information, exchange and encounter among professional translators and those wishing to specialize in literature for children.

Meeting other translators
The Translators’ Centre provides an opportunity to meet with other professionals, exchange information, and develop collaboration. A wide range of information is made available on this specialist branch of translation, such as trade associations, residencies and scholarships for translators, and translation subsidies available to publishers.

A broad meeting programme
The Translators’ Centre offers an exciting programme of activities to all participants. These include meetings with the diverse stakeholders in the book translation world; translation laboratories that each year focus on several foreign languages; theme-specific seminars; and an important international conference on a topical professional issue.

The World Directory of Children’s Book Translators
This broad database of children’s book translators around the world is available during the book fair for participants to consult or join. Developed by the Translators’ Centre, the database can be consulted all year round on the websites of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and Unesco’s Index Translationum.

Special focus on translator training
As well as theme-specific seminars and translator laboratories, this year’s programme also features exciting translator training initiatives developed in collaboration with the University of Bologna’s Forlì faculty for translation and interpretation (SSLMIT) - whose students will provide simultaneous translation at Translators’ Centre meetings - and with the Bologna “Carlo Bo” Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici.

Many new initiatives for translators are planned with the aim of promoting the Italian language and Italian literature in the world:

The Centre for Books and Readership, created by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activies, has dedicated space on its website to translators working for publishers through the Banca dati per traduttori editoriali. The databank is open to all translators translating from any language to italian and from italian to any other language. It is an official site where translators can present their curriculum vitae and experience, while publishers seeking a translator will be able to find a solution for their requirements.

The Rome translators’ residence Casa delle Traduzioni , was set up to promote excellence in literary translation. Located in the heart of the capital, the residence provides accommodation and resources, such as a specialist library on translation.

Informations

Translators Centre
Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi
Piazza Costituzione, 6
40127 Bologna
Tel. 39-051-282494
Fax 39-051-6374011
E-mail: translator@bolognafiere.it