Tags: GermanyThe Goethe Institut offers funded residencies to translators from German in Gut Siggen or Dresden-Hellerau (Germany). Preference is given to translators working on contemporary texts. Translators can stay six to eight weeks and will receive a stipend of...
Tags: GermanyGerman St-Jerome’s-Week – German ‘St Jerome’s Week ‘ – started in Hamburg on the evening of 25 September, when a therapy group of anonymous translators outed themselves as addicted to lobster, beauty, blood,...
Tags: GermanyFrom 13 to 19 August 2017 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (Working Group for Youth Literature e.V.) will host the eighth annual workshop on the translation of German literature for children and young people entitled...
Tags: GermanyEva Lüdi Kong has been awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Translation for Die Reise in den Westen (‘Travel into the West’), her translation of an at least 400 year old Chinese book. In this book, whose author is unknown, four pilgrims who have been...
Tags: GermanyFrom 19-26 March 2017 the Robert Bosch Foundation and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin will host a seminar for professional translators of German literature. With financial support from the Goethe-Institut, S. Fischer Foundation, Traduki and the Pro...
