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Call for applications: Residencies for literary translators from German

Call for applications: Residencies for literary translators from German

The Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia has twelve grants available for one-month residencies in the European Translators’ House in Straelen (Germany).

Literary translators who work on a text written by an author from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia can apply for a residency. […]

Call for applications: Residencies for literary translators from German

Call for applications: Paul Celan Fellowships 2015/2016 for translators

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. […]

Call for applications: JUNIVERS – International meeting of translators of German poetry (Deadline: 31 March 2019)

Call for applications: International meeting for translators of German literature (Berlin / Leipzig, 17-24 March 2019)

From 17-24 March 2019 Literarisches Colloquium Berlin will host a seminar for professional translators of German literature. With financial support from the Robert Bosch Foundation and the German Translators’ Fund, and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, S. Fischer Foundation, and the Pro Helvetia foundation, the seminar is open to 30 translators from all over the world. […]

Call for applications: Residencies in Prague and Brno (Deadline: 21 March 2019)

Call for applications: International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School (Norwich; deadline: 15 April 2018)

The British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich will run an International Literary Translation & Creative Writing Summer School from 22-28 July 2018. The summer school, which will take place in Norwich, brings together writers and translators for an intensive, one-week, residential programme of hands-on translation and creative writing practice. […]

Call for applications: grants for the translation and international promotion of Catalan literary and philosophical texts

Call for applications: grants for the translation and international promotion of Catalan literary and philosophical texts

The Institut Ramon Llull has opened a call for grants for the international promotion and translation of Catalan literature and philosophical texts.

Applications for promotional activities focused on Catalan and Aranese literature should be sent in by 26 September 2017.
Information about conditions and the application procedure can be found here. […]