{"id":291036,"date":"2012-06-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/06\/26\/eu-lit-prize-2012\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:04:25","slug":"eu-lit-prize-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/06\/26\/eu-lit-prize-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Lit Prize 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here<\/a> to read a new article (Publishing Perspectives<\/i><\/a>, June 20) on the European Union’s annual Literature Prize<\/a>, as well as thoughtful conversation about the difficulty of getting published in a “big” language.<\/p>\n

The EU’s Literature Prize was developed to facilitate cultural and artistic exchange across Europe’s many linguistic and national borders. However, as the writers in this article point out, there are a few factors that complicate the enactment of such a worthy goal. <\/p>\n

One of the issues that the article explores in depth is the problem of getting translated into a “big” language – English, German, Spanish, or French – from a “small” language. As an English-speaker, I never would’ve imagined the kinds of publication challenges faced by “small”-language writers.<\/p>\n

After reading the article, I had to wonder: even in languages, does a certain hierarchy exist? When your native language is spoken in an area the size of Connecticut, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to reach a wider audience. What can we do to support authors from smaller countries and to help get their works translated? It’s a question that merits discussion, in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to read a new article (Publishing Perspectives, June 20) on the European Union’s annual Literature Prize, as well as thoughtful conversation about the difficulty of getting published in a “big” language. The EU’s Literature Prize was developed to facilitate cultural and artistic exchange across Europe’s many linguistic and national borders. However, as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340956,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291036\/revisions\/340956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}