ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) and KITAB – the new joint venture between ADACH and Frankfurt Book Fair – will organise an international conference to emphasise the importance of translations and translation funding initiatives.
Publishers from the UK, Germany, France, Lebanon, Egypt and UAE will present their views on publishing translations – from the intellectual as well as the trade angle. They will highlight examples of their work, draw conclusions from their experiences and discuss the challenges with their Arab counterparts.
The subject of translations will also be tackled from the perspective of literary agents as well as from important translators themselves.
The conference, scheduled on the 10th March, is set to mark the start of a series of activities around the theme of translations.
ADACH and KITAB will continue working with KALIMA in initiatives that aim to improve and facilitate the cooperation between publishers, translators and other partners in the market.
More training seminars for translators, publishers and agents are on the agenda.
With the launch of KALIMA – Abu Dhabi’s translation initiative which aims to bring more foreign literature in translation to the Arab World – a new chapter in the cooperation of the Western and Arab World in culture and publishing is hoped to be opened.
The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair is thought to be the most suitable place to draw the attention of the international publishing community to the groundbreaking endeavour, as a number of world renowned publishers from the Western and Arab World will be attending it.
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