Call for applications: Visegrad Literary Residency Program

Apr 28, 2013 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

Tags: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaThe Visegrad Literary Residency Program, established in 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, consists of a series of residencies and literary events available to fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, essayists, and...

Annual Finnish translation prizes granted to Tapani Kärkkäinen, Miika Luoto and Tarja Roinila

Apr 18, 2013 | Finland

Tags: FinlandTapani Kärkkäinen has won the 2013 Mikael Agricola Prize for his translation of the novel Vaeltajat (original title: ‘Bieguni’) by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The annual award is granted to an outstanding Finnish translation of a work of fiction....

Top PEN Prize to jailed Turkish translator, writer and activist Ayşe Berktay

Apr 18, 2013 | Turkey

Tags: TurkeyAyşe Berktay, a translator, writer and activist in Turkey, will be awarded the 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Ayşe Berktay, a member of the Turkish association of Translators (ÇEVBİR), was arrested on 14 September 2011 and is currently...

Swedish Natur & Kultur Foundation’s Translation Prize to Laura Cangemi and Ulla Ekblad-Frosgren

Apr 18, 2013 | Sweden

Tags: SwedenThe Swedish Academy has awarded the 2013 Natur & Kultur Foundation’s  Translation Prize to Laura Cangemi and Ulla Ekblad-Forsgren. Natur & Kultur is one of the larger Swedish publishing houses. The prize was instituted in 1985 with the purpose of...

Open for application: Translation workshop on German books for children and young people (Hamburg, 25-30 August 2013)

Apr 16, 2013 | Germany

Tags: GermanyFrom 25-30 August 2013 the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. will organize the fourth edition of a workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people. The workshop is aimed especially at...