Mar 18, 2015 | United Kingdom
English PEN’s Writers in Translation programme is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a nationwide programme of events beginning on the evening of 18 March with a launch at Foyles bookshop in London. The programme will include events dedicated to international writers at the London Book Fair, Cambridge Literary Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, among others, and will culminate in an all-day celebration of contemporary Muslim European and Middle Eastern writing at the Rich Mix arts centre in London. […]
Feb 16, 2015 | Italy
Underlining the importance of the diffusion of Italian books throughout the world to promote Italian culture, Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a call for initiatives that contribute to the diffusion of Italian books abroad. Among the subventions of the ministry are translation grants to international publishers who publish Italian-language works of contemporary literature, literature for children and young people, important academic titles, and non-fiction works. […]
Feb 10, 2015 | Iceland
The Icelandic Literature Center (Miðstöð íslenskra bókmennta) has a fund available to foreign publishers wishing to publish a work translated from Icelandic. Applications for support can only be made after the applicant has acquired the rights to the work and signed a contract with the translator. The Icelandic Literature Center cannot grant support to a translation published before the deadline for which the application is submitted. The aim of the fund is to promote Icelandic literature abroad. Grants are available for literary works (prose, poetry and drama), non-fiction of general interest (including essays and biographies), comic books and children’s books. […]
Dec 27, 2014 | Austria
The aim of the Paul Celan Fellowship Program is to overcome deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and the reception of scholarly literature which result from the division of Europe in the 20th century. Therefore, the program supports translations of canonical texts and contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies from Eastern to Western, Western to Eastern, or between two Eastern European languages. […]
Dec 15, 2014 |
The new call for applications for the Literary Translation sub-programme of EU’s Creative Europe programme is now online (http://eacea NULL.ec NULL.europa NULL.eu/creative-europe/funding/literary-translation-2015_en). Publishers can apply by 4 February, 2015. Please note that the application procedure has been changed since the start of Creative Europe.
Dec 1, 2014 | Spain
Translators’ house in Tarazona (Spain) re-opens its doors and offers grants to 12 translators.
Nov 5, 2014 | Germany
Call for applications: meeting for translators of German literature (Berlin/Leipzig, March 2015)
Jun 12, 2014 | Hungary, Serbia
Serb literary translation award initiated in Balatonfüred (Hungary).
May 30, 2014 | World
Literary Translators’ Centre opened in Hanoi.
Apr 16, 2014 | United Kingdom
Edwin Morgan Translation Fellowship for Courses in British and Irish Literature.
Apr 14, 2014 | Germany
Call for applications: Workshop for translators of German children’s literature (17-22 August 2014, Hamburg)
Feb 10, 2014 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia
Call for application: Visegrad Literary Residency Programme Autumn 2014.
