CULTUREHelp and Subsidies
List of funding national or regional organisms for literary translation.
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| Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (Sweden) The Centre offers a limited number of bursaries meant to cover travel and living expenses, as a rule for four weeks stay. More |
| Translators' House - NLPVF (Netherlands) The Translators’ House in Amsterdam welcomes translators from the Dutch into any language, who want to improve or maintain their language skills and their knowledge of Dutch culture. More |
| Renditions - Research Centre for Translation (China) RCT is keen to facilitate the work of younger academics who have a strong interest in translation. More |
| Grinzane European Network - Culture 2000 (Italy) Projects for the diffusion of books, reading and translation. More |
| French Book News (France/United States of America/United Kingdom) Provides funding for translators wishing to stay in France in order to translate French works in the fields of literature or the humanities. More |
| EKEMEL - The European Centre for the Translation of Literature and the Human Sciences (Greece) EKEMEL is a workshop for literary translation, with the emphasis on improving translation practice. More |
| El escritorio de Etienne Dolet (Spain/Argentina) List of grants and subsidies to publishing, prizes and awards. More |
| Czech Literary Funds Foundation (Czech Republic) The aim of this Foundation is to foster the non-profit literature and culture. More |
| CITL - Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires (France) The CITL's primary job is to provide residency facilities to professional translators from around the world. More |
| Réseau Européen des Collèges de Traducteurs Littéraires (France) The Network European of the Colleges of Literary Translators is a place of meeting. Practical training is proposed there. More |
| CLT - Centre for Literature and Translation (China) The CLT is established to provide a culture that will be conducive to the cultivation of scholarly exchange and engagement in research in the disciplines of language, literature and translation. More |
| Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (Israel) Subject to the availability of funds, financial aid may be given to a publisher who undertakes to independently translate a work of Hebrew literature for publication abroad. More |
| Arts Council of England (United Kingdom) Funding for literary translation More |
| Ministero degli Affari Esteri (Italy) Initiative for the promotion of Italian culture in foreign countries. More |
| Greek Ministry of Culture (Greece) The Ministry of Culture has set up a special programme to encourage the publication of translations of contemporary Greek literature by providing funding for translations of literary works of all genres. More |
| Centre national du livre (Greece) This site gives all information on financial help for translators. More |
| Maison Antoine Vitez - International centre for the translation of drama (France) The centre supports and encourages the translation of plays in order to open the French theatre up to foreign repertoires, to encourage the translation of contemporary pieces and the resurrection and translation or the re-translation of classical texts. More |
| ELIT - Estonian Literature Information Centre (Estonia) They provide information on Estonian literature and the literary scene in Estonia. More |
| British Council (United Kingdom) Their current priorities include literature for young people, cultural diversity, creative writing and literary translation. More |
| Translatio (Greece) Translatio is an experimental web site about books and translation. More |
| British Centre for Literary Translation (United Kingdom) BCLT works to raise the profile of literary translation in the UK through an imaginative and varied programme of events, activities, publications and research. More |
| IWTCR - International Writers' & Translators' Centre of Rhodes (Greece) They run projects in the area of translation and provide free space for translators to work for a period of minimum two weeks and maximum one month. More |
| Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium Nordrhein-Westfalen in Straelen (Germany) They receive translators in residency. More |
| Estonian Writers' Union (Estonia) They welcome writers and translators from around the Baltic Sea to stay at the centre. More |
| Centre de Poésie et Traduction - Fondation Royaumont (France) Collective tanslation seminar. More |
| A.E.T. - Atelier Européen de la Traduction (France) Targeting students, this is a European awareness raising and introduction programme in the field of literature, managed with the European Community's support. More |
| SETL - European School of Literary Translation (Italy) In Europe there are excellent schools for conference and parliamentary interpreters, but literary translators have always had to be self-taught. More |
| Ministry of Culture (Czech Republic) Their aim is to encourage the translation of Czech literature abroad. More |
| Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters (India) They have been given awards for translation in the 22 languages recognised by it every year, since 1989. More |
| Collegio Italiani dei Traduttori Grinzane Cavour (Italy) La Giuria ha inoltre conferito il Premio Grinzane – Sezione Traduzione alla slavista Serena Vitale, grande conoscitrice della lingua e della letteratura russe, per l’insieme della sua opera di traduzione. More |
| The American - Scandinavian Foundation (United States of America) They will award the twenty-sixth annual ASF Translation Prizes in the fall of 2005 for the best translations of poetry, fiction, drama or literary prose written by a Scandinavian author after 1800. More |
| International PEN Club (United Kingdom) List of PEN Club all over the world. More |
| Literature Across Frontiers (United Kingdom) Literary exchange and policy debate operating through partnership with European organisations. More |
| Translators' companion Austrian Association of Literary and Scientific Translators More |
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