EU Lifelong Learning Programme calls for the creation of literary translators’ platforms

Dec 10, 2010 | Europe

Tags: EuropeThe general call for proposals 2011 for the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) has been launched. In the strategic priorities 2011-2013 of this programme, section KA 2.2 (networks in the key activity field of ‘languages’) now includes...

English PEN marks decade of supporting literature in translation

Mar 18, 2015 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomEnglish 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...

Emerging Translator Mentorships (deadline: 28 July 2017)

Jul 20, 2017 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomFounded by Daniel Hahn in 2010, the translation mentoring programme of Writer´s Centre Norwich aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented...

Edwin Morgan Translation Fellowships (Edinburgh; deadline: 27 March 2017)

Jan 19, 2017 | United Kingdom

Tags: United KingdomTo celebrate the life and work of the translator, poet and academic, Edwin Morgan, Creative  Scotland is funding two free places on the six week Text and Context course at the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School to two professional...

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...

EACEA publishes selection results of the support to literary translation projects 2018

Feb 18, 2019 | Europe

Tags: EuropeThe main objectives of the support for literary translation projects, granted by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union, were to support cultural and linguistic diversity; to strengthen the transnational...