Bursary Opportunity in Ireland for Brazilian Literary Translators in 2017

This looks like a wonderful opportunity for qualified candidates:

Bursary Opportunity in Ireland for Brazilian Literary Translators in 2017


Literature Ireland, in co-operation with the Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin, wishes to invite applications from literary translators for a residential bursary in Dublin in the period January to May 2017.

The bursary will be awarded to a practising literary translator of established track record who is working on a translation into Brazilian Portuguese of a work of contemporary Irish literature.

Travel and living expenses will be covered by Literature Ireland, while accommodation and work space will be provided by the Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin. The successful applicant will be asked to work closely with students on the M. Phil. in Literary Translation (1–2 contact hours a week) and to organise three public workshops/talks on contemporary Latin American literature.

The bursary will be of four months’ duration. All applicants for this bursary must provide proof that they hold a publishing contract for the work in question. Applications should include an outline project proposal, current curriculum vitae and two references (including one from a publishing house). Where possible, a sample of the translation-in-progress (approximately 1,000 words of the original) should also be submitted in support of the application.

Completed applications should be submitted by email in English to info@literatureireland.com no later than Friday, 14 October 2016. The successful candidate will be notified by Friday, 21 October 2016. For further information, contact Rita McCann, info at literatureireland.com, or Dr Sarah Smyth, ssmyth at tcd.ie.

Literary translator residencies, Free Word Centre, London

Crossing Cultures: Translating Tales
Translator in residence programme at the Free Word Centre, London
September 2012 – May 2013

The Free Word Centre in London is offering two four-month residencies for practising literary translators in London, in association with the Translators Association, with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

One translator will work from Turkish, as Turkey will be the country focus for the London Book Fair in April 2013. The second translator will be working from another language that is widely spoken in the local community, i.e. the local boroughs of Islington, Hackney, City and Tower Hamlets. These include: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Urdu and Vietnamese.

The role of translator in residence will be both challenging and rewarding. Therefore, FWC are looking for a professional, practising translator, with an aptitude for working in community settings and a proactive, collaborative approach that will engage a wide range of participants and audiences.
Translators will be responsible for researching ideas and developing innovative projects which will be realised with the support of Free Word, and where appropriate working with Free Word Founder Members and Associates, including The British Centre for Literary Translation, English PEN, the Reading Agency and Arvon.

Part of the programme of events should also include developing a project with the local community; this might include working with local schools, colleges, businesses or community groups.

A fee of £5000 is available for each individual residency, together with a small budget to realise projects.

Applications: Please send a CV and covering letter outlining why you want to be translator in residence at the Free Word Centre. Please include an outline of some initial ideas on how you would fulfil the project objectives and send to Siobhan [at] freewordonline.com by 11 June at 10am.

More information here.

Literary translation events, prizes, workshops, residencies and other goodies

 

There are still places available for the Chinese and Arabic workshops at this summer's British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School. The BCLT's website has details of prizes, residencies and funding opportunities for literary translators, including a new prize: the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize for the translation of Russian poetry into English (deadline 31 August 2011) which is open to translators anywhere in the world. Applications are also being accepted for the Vermont Studio Center/Zoland Poetry 2011 Translation Fellowship. This fellowship, open to all translators of international writing into English, provides an all-inclusive four-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the international creative retreat center for artists and writers in northern Vermon. The application deadline is 15 June 2011. (Sounds, as my brother would say, awesome).

Don't forget about the third annual World Literature Weekend from 17 to 19 June 2011 in London, a celebration of  literature in translation with an amazing line-up. Those of you who were, like me, riveted to the adventures of the Girl Who Fixed The Umlaut (I've now moved on to Jo Nesbø - also gripping stuff) might enjoy the Scandinavian crime fiction event Reading Scars with Karin Alvtegen, Håkan Nesser and Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen. As well as the Live Translation event, there are six limited-entry translation masterclasses from French and Italian (alas sold out), Russian, German, Arabic and Spanish. Download a PDF of the program (3.1MB).


For readers with literary translations languishing unpublished on their hard drive, there are two journals currently looking for submissions. The Black Herald is looking for submissions of original or translated poetry in English or French. The peer-reviewed academic journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is interested in receiving translations into English of short stories from any language. For queries or to submit a story for consideration (up to 8,000 words), contact Ailsa Cox at Cox at edgehill.ac.uk. They are also interested in articles on translating short stories or interviews with writers from other languages. This September's deadline is for an issue on the figure of the author; any translations of stories which include an author character would be especially welcome.

For more on literary translation events and resources click on the literary translation tags to this post or in the tag cloud.