The Iowa Review

The Iowa Review wrote me quite awhile back to tell me about their new translation and literature forum. I only recently got around to looking at the site and I’m pleased to see such a high-profile literary magazine show translation some attention. You can check it out on the Iowa Review’s website.

La Rassegna del traduttore

I’ve recently learned about La Rassegna del traduttore, a site that is a collection of blogs and other online texts about translation. You can see the list of feeds, which is quite extensive and happens to include Brave New Words. It’s a good resource!

Wordnik

I just learned about a new dictionary and thesaurus, Wordnik. It’s a really handy reference tool because it offers a number of sentences for each word, so you can see how the word is employed in various contexts. Wordnik was founded by Erin McKean, the former editor-in-chief of The New Oxford American Dictionary, and it already contains more than four million words.

Translation Directory

Here is a very useful translation directory, with links for many different areas of language and translation.

A Travel Resource

I like resources that can serve double duty. This “travel survival guide” is a good resource for those travelling, but also potentially good for translators.

Food Allergy Resources

Someone sent me the link to a website that offers “a new language tool dedicated to travelers with food allergies.” This site is not only useful to those who suffer from food allergies, but could potentially be helpful to translators who are working on culinary or medical texts.

Links on Children’s Literature

My last post discussed what it means to study children’s literature, so here I want to offer a few links that might be useful or interesting.

Outside In is about children’s literature and translation and Deborah Hallford and Edgardo Zaghini, who run the site, edited a collection of articles about and summaries of children’s literature in translation.

Write Away has many reviews of children’s literature and runs a conference and other activities.

Two organizations dedicated to the study and promotion of children’s literature are IRSCL and IBBY (note that I’ve given the link to IBBY in the UK, but there are branches all over the world).

Here are some major academic journals on children’s lit:

IRCL, which is run by IRSCL

Barnboken

Looking Glass

Papers

New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship

Write4Children

If you know of any other useful links, let me know!

Useful References and Links

Now that I’ve changed the look of the blog, I no longer have the blog and reference list running down the side of the page. Instead, I will keep this post updated with useful links for you.

Translator Associations

Sveriges Facköversättarförening/ Swedish Association of Professional Translations

American Literary Translators Association

American Translators Association

Föreningen Auktoriserade Translatorer/ Federation of Authorized Translators

International Federation of Translators

Institute of Translation and Interpreting

The Translators and Interpreters Guild

Reference

Dictionary and Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus

Swedish-English Dictionary

Svenska Akademiens Ordbok/Swedish Academy's Dictionary

Scandinavian Dictionary

Online Etymology Dictionary

Fact Index

Library Spot

Online Conversion

World Wide Words

Bartleby

Other Blogs

Practicing Writing

Ur språkens tunnlar

Översättarbloggen

Translation Times

Nordic Voices

Three Percent

Poems Found in Translation

Beyond Words

ALTalk Blog

Language Log

David Crystal's Blog

Language Hat

Omniglot

From Our Lips

Web Translations

Word du Jour

Life In Translation

Translating is an Art

Masked Translator

About Translation

if:book

Separated by a Common Language

Spanish Legal Translation

George Szirtes's blog

Other Translation-Related Links

Swansea University Translation Links

Inttranews Translation News

PEN's Guidelines for Reviewing Translations

Center for the Art of Translation