{"id":272806,"date":"2009-07-29T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/07\/29\/finnish-translation-competition\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:43","slug":"finnish-translation-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/07\/29\/finnish-translation-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Translation Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finnish-institute.org.uk\/en\/archive\/116\">Finnish Institute in London<\/a> (via Nordic Voices):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Finnish Institute in London and <span class=\"caps\">FILI<\/span> &#8211; Finnish Literature Exchange are pleased to announce a translation competition to source new talent in translating fiction from Finnish to English. You do not have to be a language professional; eligible participants include everyone from novices to experienced translators. What you do need is a passion for language, a good understanding of Finnish and a talent for writing in English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>bq.The translation competition is part of the Finnish Institute&#8217;s programme of activities aiming at increasing the number of Finnish books entering the British literary market. We invite you to translate, from Finnish to English, Maritta Lintunen&#8217;s piece &#8220;Piinaviikko&#8221; from her collection of short prose entitled Ovisilm\u00e4 (<span class=\"caps\">WSOY<\/span>, 2006).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Entering the competition is easy. Just download the text and the entry form, translate the text by 31 August 2009, and send both to us (as .doc, .rtf or .pdf). There is no entry fee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finnish-institute.org.uk\/images\/stories\/pdf2009\/maritta_lintunen_piinaviikko.pdf\">here<\/a> for a pdf of &#8220;Piinaviikko&#8221; and click <txp_file_download_link id=\"49\">here<\/txp_file_download_link> to download the official entry form.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/133.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Finnish Institute in London (via Nordic Voices): The Finnish Institute in London and FILI &#8211; Finnish Literature Exchange are pleased to announce a translation competition to source new talent in translating fiction from Finnish to English. You do not have to be a language professional; eligible participants include everyone from novices to experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,10786,26236,10386,26256,26246,26226],"class_list":["post-272806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-fili","tag-finnish-institute-in-london","tag-finnish-literature","tag-maritta-lintunen","tag-piinaviikko","tag-translation-competition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272806","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351726,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272806\/revisions\/351726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}