On the morning of Friday 24 June 2016, the UK awoke to the news that it had collectively decided to leave the European Union. In London, where campaigns to form a breakaway republic would soon appear on social media walls, people found themselves muttering This Was Not Supposed To Happen, to no one
The third edition of Translating Europe Forum is taking place in Brussels on 27-28 October 2016. Participation is free of charge but registration is compulsory and places are limited! Every year the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission organises the #TranslatingEurope Forum
Dalkey Archive Press is pleased to announce that they are now accepting submissions of recent or forthcoming European short stories and stand-alone novel extracts for Best European Fiction 2018. They are looking for translations from all the countries that represent Greater Europe, from Ireland and
International Translation Day is the annual event for the literary translation community. It is an opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers to gather and network, debate significant issues and developments within the sector, discuss challeng
A year ago, in the summer of 2015, the final novel of The Neapolitan Quartet by the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante was published in English, translated by Ann Goldstein. The journalist and director of European Literature Network, Rosie Goldsmith, along with thousands of readers world-wide, was grip
Central Europe is not a state: it’s a culture or a fate. Its borders are imaginary and must be drawn and redrawn with each new historical situation. (Milan Kundera) First we find a name for a new phenomenon and only after that do we start debating it or even reflecting about it. Doing it any [
