March 2023 residency programme for writers and translators in the Białowieża Forest, Eastern Poland […]
Residencies for literary translators and writers from Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine
#FreeAllWords – 1 Million Words for Peace and Freedom of Speech
The #FreeAllWords text and translation fund is a joint support initiative for first and foremost Belarusian and Ukrainian writers, coordinated under the umbrella of the European Writers’ Council (EWC) with the help of CEATL […]
Literary residencies In Warsaw for writers and translators from Belarus and Ukraine
In the framework of a partnership between three Polish host cities —Cracow, Gdańsk and Warsaw— and two Polish literary associations —Literary Union Association and Literary Translators Association— a second round of the literary residency programme for writers and translators […]
Belarus: Radical Crackdown Against The Free Word
The European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the European Writers Council (EWC) call on the governments of Europe and the international community to demonstrate firm support for the democracy movement in Belarus […]
CEATL joins the EWC in support of democracy and human rights in Belarus
Over the past 12 months, an unprecedented wave of searches and detentions has been targeting independent cultural and human rights organizations in Belarus. On 14 July the Directorate ‘Combating Organized Crime and Corruption’ of the Belarusian Ministry of the Interior conducted a nationwide ‘radical cleansing’ operation […]
Total Crackdown of Belarusian Culture in January, 2021
According to the data collected and analyzed by the Belarusian PEN Centre, since August 2020 till the end of the year, the number of cases of repressions in the sphere of culture in Belarus had increased rapidly and reached 568 […]
#freewordsbelarus 36 Presidents, Chairs and board members of 33 writers’ and translators’ organisations from 22 countries representing 120,000 authors, join voices to support the democracy movement in Belarus
On 26 November, the 90th birthday of the Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, the video reading campaign #freewordsbelarus will be launched on the EWC Daily- Motion-channel. […]
CEATL condemns the unlawful arrest of Belarus translators
Along with PEN International, CEATL strongly condemns the entirely unjustified and unlawful arrests of the Belarus translators Hanna Komar, Uladzimir Liankievic and Siarzh Miadzvedzeu.