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London Book Fair initiates an award for literary translation initiatives
London Book Fair initiates an award for literary translation initiatives
17 Dec, 2014

The London Book Fair is offering an International Literary Translation Initiative Award, which recognises the contribution of ‘organisations that have succeeded in raising the profile of literature in translation, promoting literary translators, and encouraging new translators and translated works’.

Qualified for nomination are ‘any company or organisation operating outside the UK, whose scope of achievement is outside the UK’. This includes literary magazines, summer schools, websites, prizes.

The deadline for nominations is 16 January 2015. Nominators are requested to fill in a simple form, stating in 300 words why the organisation they are nominating deserves to win.

More information is available at the website (http://www NULL.londonbookfair NULL.co NULL.uk/en/Forms-2015/International-Book-Industry-Excellence-Awards-201453/) of the London Book Fair.

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