International Translation Day is the annual event for the literary translation community. It is an opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, blo
Monday 13 March 2017, 6:45pm – 9pm, Free Word Centre Free Word Centre welcomes author Bakhtiyar Ali to discuss I Stared at the Night of the City with his translator Kareem
Monday 13 March 2017, 11am – 5pm, Free Word Centre A day of discussion about literary translation. Join us for this annual curtain-raiser to the London Book Fair curated by
Mon 13 Feb 2017, 6:45pm – 9:00pm, Free Word Centre, book here. We welcome acclaimed author Steven Uhly and his British translator Jamie Bulloch for the UK launch of Kingdom
Mon 16 Jan 2017, 6:45pm – 9:00pm, Free Word Centre, book here. Polish writer Wioletta Greg introduces her book Swallowing Mercury, the tale of a girl growing up in communi
Award-winning Norwegian writer Brit Bildøen who will be in conversation with Dr Meg Jensen from Kingston University about her latest book Seven Days in August, which explores the
Thomas Rydahl’s extraordinary debut crime novel The Hermit was an instant bestseller in Denmark and stayed in the top ten for 30 weeks. It was the winner of the Harald Mogensen
Reporters and journalists need to tell stories that are happening in other countries and other languages to their own countries, in their own languages. But what are the challenges
First, second, third language – sometimes it’s surprisingly difficult to tell them apart, especially when creative work is involved. As we acquire a language, we might be tempt
International Translation Day is the annual event for the literary translation community. It is an opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, blog
