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

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

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

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)

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

“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

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

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. 

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

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)

The conference in Saint-Petersburg

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

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

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 [+]

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

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 [+]

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

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

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

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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

Read more in Czech and German here

10/21/09 – Booker Prize 2009

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

9/17/09 – Theater and traduction

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