9/30/10 – International Translation Day: a symposium on translation today Events

Jointly presented by Dalkey Archive Press, Free Word and the London Book Fair's Literary Translation Centre, this day of discussions on translation includes four strands. Panels will discuss: the training of translators; general education today, in modern languages and in translation; the [+]

5/13/10 – awarding of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Events

At RIBA in London this evening, judges and readers will come together to discover the 2010 winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, led as always by the Independent's champion of reading in foreign cultures, literary editor Boyd Tonkin. Information on the six shortlisted novels is here.

5/12/10 – European Literature Night at the British Library Events

On this evening and through the night celebratory readings and discussions bringing together writing from all over Europe will be held in capital cities throughout Europe. In London, you will find the gathering at the British Library, which will host Polish, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Bulgarian [+]

4/25/10 – May-congress commune in Moscow (April, 29-30) Events

The First Open 48-hours May-Congress Commune of creative workers will take place in Moscow (April, 29-30). Artists, poets, writers, musicians, philosophers, cineasts, performers will take part in discussions, readings and screenings. Militating in Russia. 

4/21/10 – 21th and 28th April- THE POETRY CAFE – BETTERTON STREET, LONDON WC2 POETRY IN TRANSLATION Events

“The Trace They Wished to Leave”

Wednesday  21 April    7.30 pm   

Tickets at door £5/£3 conc.

George Szirtes   will present “poems of foreignness and belonging” from his own work and that of other Hungarian poets.George Szirtes was born in Budapest, in 1948. His family came to England as [+]

4/20/10 – at the new Literary Translation Centre, London Book Fair Events

A packed programme of discussions and readings this year, the first year for the London Book Fair of its dedicated, practicel hub, the Literary Translation Centre. These two events taking place on Tuesday 20th April could give you an idea: 'Making translations happen' and the launch of a new [+]

4/14/10 – Travails with Oblomov: retranslating a classic Events

Stephen Pearl, author of the brand-new translation of Goncharov's classic novel, Oblomov, will discuss his work with an audience at London's Pushkin House. 

4/14/10 – Vladislav Khodasevich on Lapshin To read

Vladislav Khodasevich's essay on Lapshin by Yuri German

3/26/10 – Translation as Art conference: Barbara Wright, Literary Translation and Creation Events

Friday 26th March: day-long conference taking place at Birkbeck university in London, followed by a roundtable and reception at the Institut Français. Speakers include David Bellow, Celia Britton, John Calder, Gabriel Josipovici, Paul Fournel, Jill Fell, Ros Schwartz.

Further information [+]

3/20/10 – Politics of the One: The Limits of Fragmentation and the Chances for Consolidation (April 8-10) Events

The conference in Saint-Petersburg

3/3/10 – Dissolution by Alexander Skidan To read

The critique of a new book by Alexander Skidan

1/27/10 – The Trace they wished to leave: Tyutchev, Anna de Noailles, Manuel Ulacia Events

The Trace they Wished to Leave: Tyutchev, Anna de Noailles, Manuel Ulacia

7.30 pm  January 27  2010 

Poetry Cafe, London

Tickets at door £5/£3 conc.

John Dewey, whose biography of Tyutchev will shortly be published by Brimstone Press Ltd., will be introducing us to  :   Fyodor Tyutchev [+]

1/20/10 – launch of Best European Fiction 2010 Events

Andrej Blatnik, Jon Fosse and Christine Montalbetti bring stories from Slovenia, Norway and France to Southbank Centre, London, marking the launch of a new annual anthology, "Best European Fiction 2010", published by Dalkey Archive Press.

For information on the [+]

12/26/09 – Sasha Sokolov's To read

New poem (proetry) by Sasha Sokolov "Gazibo".

12/11/09 – A New Literary History of the Low Countries Events

On 11th December 09, the first English-language history of the literature of the Netherlands and Flanders since the 1970s - and the most substantial ever published - was launched at the National Gallery in London. The volume, first published in Dutch and then in French, is now adapted and edited [+]

12/5/09 – To testify and to translate To read

In Ulysses in Auschwitz (The Auschwitz Foundation Prize 2005), Francois Rastier reinterprets the whole of Primo Levi's work, taking into account his activities as a translator and his poems, too much neglected by the critics.

(...) For Levi, man of the Enlightenment after Auschwitz, the easy [+]

12/1/09 – The Atrocity Exhibition at La Loge de Paris Events

A theatrical adaptation of J.G Ballard's 1970 novel at La Loge de Paris, adapted for the stage by Pauline Bourse. In french.

11/29/09 – Mikhail Kuzmin: Life under the ice To read

The magazine "Nashe Nasledie" has published the diaryof Mikhael Kuzmin (1929)

11/13/09 – The SeA wishes to relay a communique of the SGDL and the ATLF To read

read more at ttp://www.atlf.org/Nouvel-article.html

3th November 2009, by the ATLF

"Each individual has a right to liberty of opinion and of expression, which implies the right to not be afraid for his opinions and to seek, receive and spread, without considering the boundaries, information and [+]

11/7/09 – HOW BOOKS CROSS BORDERS, November 6 and 7, 2009 Events

Reservations necessary: commentleslivres@inha.fr



FRiDAY 6TH NOVEMBER

14h00

Welcome : Antoinette Le Normand-Romain (INHA) and Maren Sell (SeA)


14h15- 15h45

Boris Hoffman, story of man, story of books
Boris Hoffman is little known to the general public. Like other artists-mediators, he worked in the [+]

10/30/09 – Days of Czech-German culture in Dresden and Usti nad Labem Events

Read more in Czech and German here

10/25/09 – Under the influence - Meeting of Central-European writers and literary critics in Prague, 12th-13th October 2009 To read

Literary meeting at the Franz Kafka Centre in Prague, around the question of the social influence of literature in the countries of Central Europe. Read more (in Czech) here: http://www.advojka.cz/podvlivemliteratury

10/25/09 – Free Havel To read

Vaclav Havel's literary works are now available for free on his website www.vaclavhavel-library.org

10/25/09 – As poor as a Czech translator To read

A new study looks at salary conditions of European translators. In Czech here

10/21/09 – Booker Prize 2009 Events

Hillary Mantel wins the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel Wolf Fall. Read here

10/8/09 – 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to a Romanian-German author To read

Read here and here

9/28/09 – European Union Prize for Literature announced To read

The names of twelve European authors to receive the new European Union Prize for Literature were announced by Commissioner Jan Figel, the European Booksellers Federation, the European Writers Council and the Federation of European Publishers. The prize was presented during an Award ceremony in [+]

9/17/09 – Theater and traduction Events

Theatre-traduction is a referential site of texts on contemporary theater helping to find a book, his different translations, an author, a publisher....

3/6/09 – SeA: First Nomadic Encounter in Brussels European meetings