Join us for a riveting evening with Ukraine’s celebrated author and public intellectual, Oksana Zabuzhko in conversation with award-winning journalist and director of the European Literature Network, Rosie Goldsmith. Zabuzhko will be speaking about her life in books, and the societal and polit
CALLING ALL TRANSLATORS OR ASPIRING TRANSLATORS FROM GERMAN TO ENGLISH The third Austrian Cultural Forum London translation competition has just been announced! The prizes are for the best German to English translation of contemporary Austrian prose writing. Call for submissions We will be a
Oxford Translation Day will now take place as online sessions over a series of weeks, culminating with the announcement of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize shortlist on 13 June. We will also make recordings of some of Oxford Translation Day’s online sessions available on the OCCT website on 13 June. He
On Friday 1st May 2020, the director of the European Literature Network and chair of the EBRD Literature Prize Rosie Goldsmith was a guest of international publishing suprema Emma House on Emma’s new online show Publishers Without Borders. Rosie Goldsmith and Emma House discuss European literature
Remember Europe? Remember those pre-pandemic days when Brexit was our greatest nightmare? My greatest hope now is that Brexit will be shelved as a generous gift to UK citizens from our new caring government for behaving so well in lockdown. After all, if the reborn PM can learn to love the NHS ov
THE ITALIANIST. From MARA. UNA DONNA DEL NOVECENTO by Ritanna Armeni, translated by Katherine Gregor
The sound of the bell, and of Nadia’s fist hammering on the door. “Mara!” Whenever we have something to say to each other, we use the broom. Nadia lives on the first floor, I am on the second. One knock means “let’s meet up immediately, I’ll wait for you at home&#
