Цель: привлечение внимания к изучению иностранных языков, развитие творческой инициативы, поднятие престижа профессии переводчика.

Участники: к участию в конкурсе приглашаются все желающие без ограничения возраста.

Язык и вид перевода: участники получают текст на английском языке для перевода на русский язык.

Текст: для конкурса подобран публицистический текст зарубежных авторов (см. приложение № 1).

Сроки проведения: Конкурс проводится с 30 мая 2011 г. по 11 сентября 2011 г.; по указанным ниже адресам участники получают конкурсное задание, работают над переводом и направляют свои работы в жюри конкурса. Переводы, поданные после 11 сентября, к конкурсу не допускаются. С 12 сентября по 12 октября жюри рассматривает все поступившие на конкурс работы и определяет лучшие переводы. Результаты конкурса объявляются 17 октября 2011г. на открытом заседании жюри, где будут объявлены имена победителей.

Оформление конкурсных работ: переводы, предоставляются в печатном виде: формат листа А4, шрифт текста 14, наличие титульного листа (ФИО, учебное заведение, контактный телефон). Подача нескольких вариантов перевода не допускается (от одного человека).

Жюри: (5 человек) состоит из профильной группы, куда входят лингвисты или специалисты по переводу, и независимой группы, состоящей из литераторов, филологов, библиотекарей.

Награждение: жюри определит трех победителей (первое, второе и третье место). По решению жюри могут быть выделены дополнительные номинации. Награждение состоится в день, определенный членами жюри после подведения итогов конкурса. Работы, занявшие первые места, будут опубликованы на сайте Библиотеки (http://publiclibrary.ru/)

Конкурсное задание можно получить:

• в Центральной публичной библиотеке, Отдел литературы на иностранных языках по адресу: ул. Фрунзе, 13. Тел. для справок: 905-80.
  
• в Лингвистическом центре «Английский дом» по адресу: ул. Крупская, 1. Тел. для справок: 99-323.

Приложение № 1

BARCELONA

I. A Little of the City’s History

Barcelona was founded two thousand years ago and it has symbolical origins. It is said to have been built during Hercules’s voyage when he was seeking the Golden Apples.
The first signs of a stable population in the area arrived with the «Layetanos», an Iberian tribe which inhabited the mountains between the rivers Besus and Llobregat.
The contact between these Iberians and Greek Traders brought about the first coins. On the coins one can read the legend of Laie and Barkeno, probably the first reference to the actual name of the city.
After the Punic War in 48 BC, a Roman presence was detected and in the 1st century AV it was given the official title of Colonia Iulia Augustia Paterna Faventia Barcino. The traditional urban disposition around an axle of two avenues can still be distinguished today.
The Muslim domination was brief. In 801 French troops of Ludovico Plo re-conquered and established the capital of the «Marca Hisp?nica».
Suffering constantly from attacks by Arbs and Visigothics, in the year 985 Almazor literally flattened the town.
In the 10th — 15th centuries Barcelona went through a time of tremendous political splendor with its expansion in the Mediterranean.
With the arrival of the Black Plague in 1374 the relevant period declined. With this and the Civil War against Joan II disintegration in the organs of power began.
In April 1493 the Catholic King received Christopher Columbus on his arrival from the first voyage to the American Continent.
In October 1571 the Christian fleet left the port of Barcelona to win the battle against the Turks. A reproduction of the flagship is now in the city’s Maritime Museum.
In 1657 a census registered 64,000 inhabitants in the city. At the end of the 18th century 115,000 people were living in Barcelona and in 1849, although the Napoleonic wars affected the population numbers, the city had 175,331 inhabitants.
In the 19th century there was a big industrial revolution. In 1854 it became necessary to destroy the city’s walls and this is what gives the city its actual urban structure today.
In 1909 «Tragic Week» occurred and culminated in the burning of various churches and convents and the establishment of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in 1923.
During the Second Republic Catalan institutions were recovered. Later the Civil War (1936-1939) came in which Barcelona formed a part of the Republican group and was the scene of violent fighting.
Then the period of dictatorship in the hands of General Francisco Franco came during which Barcelona initiated a rapid and measured growth due to constant immigration flow from the South of the Peninsula.
Arriving then to democracy and up to these times the last official census recorded 2 million people living in the city.

II. A Little of the City’s Sightseeings

The Cathedral
The actual gothic Barcelona Cathedral stands today where a previously constructed visigothic temple of enormous proportions was some centuries ago. Its building began in 1289 and wasn’t finished until the 20th century. In 1448 the basic structure was concluded, although the main fa?ade and the two side towers, which ornament the cathedral, were put up between 1887 and 1913.
Bordering the apse of the cathedral in Pietat street we can see one of the 15th century doors that gave direct access to the cloister. The other door the Sant Eulalia is in the Bisbe Road. On the corner of this road the chapel of Sant Llucia, a roman church from the transition period, is situated. It had been built 30 years before the start of the Basilica and later included inside the cathedral’s enclosure.
What particularly stands out in the cathedral is its wonderful chorus, built in 1380 and remodelled at different times by different sculptors. In front of the main altar a staircase goes to the crypt presided over by the tomb of Santa Eulalia.
The most welcoming part of the structure is the cloister with a garden containing tall palms and magnolias round a pond and a fountain in one corner.
Some years ago the cathedral was the scene of one of the most important events in the city, the marriage of Princess Cristina, one of the two daughters of the Spanish King Juan Carlos I.

The Picasso Museum
It is located in the Aguilar Palace and was inaugurated in 1963. The most spectacular part of the building, apart from the collection that it houses, is the open interior patio and stairway with the sculptures that adorn it.
Inside, the itinerary begins with children’s works of art that the inspired artist undertook in Malaga and La Coru?a to follow with the period of formation in Barcelona (1897-1899) with the gallery of portraits and self-portraits. There are a lot of extremely interesting pictures reflecting Picasso’s periods in Paris, the Blue Period, the Rose Period and Cubism.

Teatro del Liceo
Designed by Miguel Gariga I Roca it was inaugurated in 1848 although it had to be rebuilt by Josep Oriol Mestres in 1862 because a fire completely destroyed it. Another fire in 1994 destroyed the auditioning rooms and the stage.
Hidden behind the fa?ade there is a zone of the largest and most splendid auditoriums in the world. The floor is horseshoe shaped and with the latest renovation has 2.400 seats. The stage has tripled its capacity and has incorporated a new rest room, which also serves as a multi role hall for chamber music concerts amongst other types of performances.
The majestic marble staircase, which connects the lobby to the main floor, was saved from the flames. The beautiful ornamentation of the theatre decreases in accordance with ascending floors until one arrives at the last one — the gallery.
In times of conflict EI Liceo has been the scene of various social conflicts, such as the incident when bombs were thrown from the gallery in 1893.
The theatre halls are full of canvases of famous painters. Opera period is from October to July and the period from September to October is dedicated to ballet.

The Wax Museum
Situated on the side of the Rambla de Santa M?nica, the Wax Museum has more than 300 dramatized reproductions of different personalities, both real and fictitious.

Paseo Colon
Paseo Colon extends along the length of what used to be the Medieval Wall, which was demolished in 1881.
Here, the «Moll de la Fusta» can be found, whose name comes from the original use of the quay which was the wood warehouse.
The new Moll de la Fusta was urbanized and re-furbished at the end of the 1980’s and is a symbol of the recovery of the maritime face of Barcelona.
The moving bridges connect the wharf, which is on two levels. The top part is considered as an open balcony to the Mediterranean, where there are some bars and restaurants, which add to the appropriate atmosphere.
The eastern part is crowded by a reproduction of a giant prawn which was the work of the Barcelona designer Mariscal and the Moll de la Fusta is the work of Manuel de Soli Morales.
One of the last attractions to be built on the Moll de la Fusta was the Aquarium, which has one of the largest amounts of marine species and their habitats in Europe. One of its greatest attractions is the shark tunnel where visitors pass between different species of sharks and thanks to the glass walls get the sensation of being in the water.

La Villa Olimpica
For a long time Barcelona lived with its back to the sea but with the motive of celebrating the 1992 Olympic Games it was to renovate its sea front.
The urban project was a space equivalent to 50 blocks of the Eixample and was conceived as an area integrating houses, business shops, offices and other services.
The town was used as the Olympic village during the Olympic Games and was occupied by more than 15.000 athletes and has emblem buildings. There are two skyscrapers there: one is the Arts Hotel with a metallic framework fa?ade supporting the building which is externally visible and the other is La Torre Mapfre with a completely glass facade.
Both buildings have 44 floors and are 153,5 metres high that makes them the highest buildings in Spain.

Contemporary Art Museum of Cataluyna
Located inside the cultural complex it was designed by Richard Meier, the artist from North America. The building is extremely sparse and spectacular at the same time. Inside, it displays works of art from the second half of the 20th century and temporary exhibitions activities related to photography, video and graphic arts in general.

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