Serb literary translation award initiated in Balatonfüred (Hungary)

Jun 12, 2014 | Hungary, Serbia

Tags: Hungary, SerbiaOn 7 June 2014, during the traditional Garden Party at the Hungarian Translators’ House, Balatonfüred’s mayor István Bóka announced the launch of a new translators’ scholarship for Serbian literary translators under 35 whose translation or essay...

Literary Translators’ Centre opened in Hanoi

May 30, 2014 | World

Tags: WorldOn 26 May 2014 the Vietnam Writers’ Association opened a centre for literary translators in Hanoi. Speaking at the opening,  the poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the Association of Vietnamese Authors, said a major goal of the new centre is to professionalize the...

Edwin Morgan Translation Fellowship for Courses in British and Irish Literature

Apr 16, 2014 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomTo celebrate the life and work of the poet and translator Edwin Morgan, Creative Scotland is funding a free place on the six-week SUISS ‘Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present’ course from 7th July to...

Call for applications: Workshop for translators from German of children’s and young people’s literature (17-22 August 2014, Hamburg)

Apr 14, 2014 | Germany

Tags: GermanyOn 17-22 August 2014 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V) will host the fifth annual workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people entitled ‘Kein...

Call for application: Visegrad Literary Residency Programme Autumn 2014

Feb 10, 2014 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

Tags: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaThe Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, provides for a series of residency stays and literary events open to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists,...

Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators – Open Call

Jan 30, 2014 | Austria

Tags: AustriaWith the aim of overcoming deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and the reception of scholarly literature arising from the division of Europe in the 20th century, the Paul Celan Fellowship Programme supports translations of canonical texts...