The Translators Café

A showcase of Italian childrens’ books to be translated, aimed at publishers and literary translators working from Italian

Presentation of the newly founded Calibro, a networking alliance of book creators that unites Stradelab (editorial translators), Al - Authors of Images and ICWA - Italian Children's Writers Association. An authors alliance for a healthy and sustainable publishing.

A profound insight into the Bulgarian translation scene: Bulgarian children’s book market, the state translation support program, the opportunities available to foreign translators and publishers.

The project “G-BOOK 3 - Audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology,” co-funded under the Creative Europe program and implemented by the MeTRa Center (Dept. of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna-Forlì), is a continuation of the G-BOOK (1017-2019) and G-BOOK 2 (2020-2023) projects. The project builds on the excellent results achieved by the previous projects: G-BOOK, which created the first European bibliography of gender-positive books for children (ages 3-10), and G-BOOK 2, which expanded the research to include the 11-14 age group. The new project aims to fill the latest gap by targeting young readers between the ages of 15 and 18, pursuing the following objectives: to foster the transnational circulation of teen literature that promotes positive gender models; to raise awareness and engage the target audience (15-18 years old) on gender issues through literature, while developing their social, emotional and creative skills through the use of digital technologies and social media.

Three publishers present a roundup of translation projects from their catalogue

A translator opens her translation workshop to discuss challenges and findings in translating from German.

Translating children's literature has always meant facing the problem of how to overcome taboos and censorship, sometimes struggling with publishers to convince them to respect authors’ choices. In recent years, however, old debates about the appropriateness of keeping coarse language, sex scenes and explicit violence in translations have been joined by new ones, mainly related to the concept of political correctness, wielded like an axe against supposedly impassable boundaries and much feared by publishers. Recently the “content warning” has also popped up, but… is it a solution? We will discuss all this during the first TableT hosted at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

Some insights into understanding Korean culture in Italy through songs, comics and TV series

The jury will provide an overall feedback to participants in the translation competition from Korean

This third edition of the experimental Honyaku Dōjō will focus on picture books for younger children, filled with onomatopoeia. Translators, illustrators and editors are invited to join us to find interesting solutions for translations in Italian.