Welcome to the AALITRA website!

Two years on from the association's reconstitution, AALITRA now has more members than ever before and a strong, diverse committee to guide us through 2008. This year we can expect many more enlightening events, special guest lectures and some new additions to our biannual newsletter.

Sadly, we must say goodbye to Rita Wilson and Judith Rodriguez who are no longer part of the committee, and we would like to thank them for their tireless efforts over the last few years in getting AALITRA back on its feet.

Public Lecture

Kate Veitch presents Translating LISTEN: Stories from the road.

12 September 2008 at 6:00pm
Melbourne University Arts Building
Swanston Street (near Grattan Street) 7th floor -- follow the signs

Meet Our Committee Members!

During last year's Annual General Meeting we collaborated on AALITRA's constitution and elected the members of our new committee. Representing AALITRA are:

Harry Aveling, President

Brian Nelson, Vice President

Margaret Dahlstrom, Secretary

Rhiannyn Geeson, Treasurer

Isobel Grave, Editor

Simon West, Committee Member

Vanna Walsh, Committee Member

Wasana Somachriyakul, Committee Member

Krishnavanie Shunmugam, Committee Member

Karin Touchie, Web Manager

• Public Lecture - Being Translated: A Writer's Perspective on the Translation Process - Isobelle Camody
  A public lecture hosted by AALITRA on June 2, 2008, at Melbourne University Arts Centre
  
  
• The passion and pain of literary translation - The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 21 June 2007
  Professor Brian Nelson has translated and edited four of Zola's novels for Oxford World's Classics. He was interviewed together with James Grieve from ANU about the art of translation.
  
  
• Public Lecture  -  Some reflections on transoceanic translation  -  Jean Anderson (pdf format)
  A public lecture hosted by AALITRA on May 30, 2007, at Monash University Caulfield Campus. Dr Anderson recently participated in a panel called 'The Art of Translation' at the Auckland Writers' festival.
  
  
• Public Lecture - The Disappearing Act of Translation - Nicholas Jose (pdf format)
  A public lecture given at the inaugural meeting of the Australian Association for Literary Translation (AALITRA) on August 1, 2006, at the Monash University City Office (30 Collins St.). 

Not a member of AALITRA? Join now to receive our biannual e-newsletter and invitations to upcoming AALITRA and other literary translation events. The membership subscription form for AALITRA for 2007-2008 is now available for download: AALITRA Subscription (pdf format).

E-mail:

aalitra@arts.monash.edu.au

Address:

AALITRA
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building 11
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800

Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Inc. (AUSIT)

Sydney PEN

Translation Beyond Dichotomy (October 2007 Conference)

Translation Studies at Monash University

Asia and Pacific Writers Network

WALTIC - Writers' and Literary Translators' International Congress

IATIS Conference 2009: Mediation and Conflict: Translation and Culture in a Global Context

LiteraryTranslation.com

To Be Translated Or Not To Be: PEN / IRL Report on the International Situation of Literary Translation