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...
Mar 21, 2014 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomFrom 14-18 July 2014 the British Centre for Literary Translation will organise a three-day residential programme for the professional development of literary translators who have run workshops or taught translation courses. Participants will have...
Oct 25, 2013 | Russia, United Kingdom
Tags: Russia, United KingdomThe Rossica Prize has been awarded biennially since 2005 for the best new translation of a high-quality Russian literary work into English. It aims to promote the best of Russian literary culture in the English-speaking world, encouraging...
Oct 3, 2013 | Netherlands, United Kingdom
Tags: Netherlands, United KingdomThe Vondel Translation Prize 2013 has been awarded to David Colmer for The Misfortunates, his translation into English of De helaasheid der dingen by Flemish author Dimitri Verhulst. The jury consisted of British critic Paul Binding...
May 28, 2013 | United Kingdom
Tags: United KingdomThis year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize of £10,000 has been awarded Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker and his translator David Colmer for Detour, published by Bloomsbury. The ‘mesmeric’ and ‘haunting’ novel beat off stiff competition from a...
