Opportunity: PEN Translates award 2019 open for submissions
Funding available to support publishers to publish more works in translation.
Blog
These blog posts offer an insight into some of the projects that we’ve supported and how the British Council works with literature, including interviews with writers, diaries from international visits, and reflections on completed or on-going projects. The opinions expressed in the blog are those of the authors.
Majaaz Poetry Translation Workshop, Tunisia, Sept. 2018
Poet and editor Martha Sprackland writes about her experiences at the Majaaz Poetry Translation Workshop in Tunsia last month. The workshop, run in collaboration with Modern Poetry in Translation magazine, brought together 5 young British poets, and 10 young poets from across the Maghreb, to translate each other’s work at a residential workshop at Villa Ma’amoura, Nabul, Tunisia.
First Monday Blog: Translation in the Margins
Translator Deborah Smith writes about founding a not-for-profit press on a mission to shake up contemporary international literature and makes the case for tilting the axis of world literature from the centre to the margins.
Tri-lingual poetry events in Scotland | 14-16 March 2017
A rare chance to hear three of Russia’s leading contemporary poets reading in partnership with Scottish poets Christine De Luca, Jen Hadfield and Stewart Sanderson.
Tag Cloud
14-18 Now Africa Awards baltics Bocas Botswana Canada Caribbean Cervantes China comic books Edinburgh book festival emirates Ethiopia Feminism germany graphic novel graphic novels Hay Festival Illustration India Indonesia Jamaica Jane Austen Kuwait Literature on Lockdown london book fair Maghreb Market Focus nature writing New writing Nigeria Opportunities Pakistan Podcast Poetry Poland Publishing Raymond Antrobus robert macfarlane Russia Shakespeare sharjah sharjah market focus Short Stories sonnets South Africa South Sudan spoken word Sri Lanka Sudan translation Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Unwritten Poems Walking Cities What we're reading Women WOW Zimbabwe
