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Several Czech translation prizes awarded

Several Czech translation prizes awarded

The Czech Literary Translators’ Guild (OP) celebrated International Translation Day at its annual award ceremony on 6 October by its Hall of Fame to Miroslav Jindra, a State Prize winner and a renowned translator from English. Fostering poetry translation, OP regularly grants the Hana Žantovská Scholarship, this time to the State Prize laureate Jiří Pelán translating selected baroque poetry to be published by Opus, a small publishing house praised by OP for its abiding devotion to quality literature and poetry in this year’s Cramerius Laudation. […]

Second call for applications: grants for the international promotion of Catalan literature

Second call for applications: grants for the international promotion of Catalan literature

The Institut Ramon Llull has opened the second call for grants to promote Catalan literature internationally in the following fields:

Translation of literature and philosophy
These grants are available to anyone who is planning to translate works of Catalan literature (fiction, poetry, theatre and graphic novels) and philosophy into other languages during the year the application process takes place or the following year. Applicants must have acquired the rights to publish the work in print format and distribute it commercially. Applications should be sent by 31 October 2016 at the latest. […]