The Literature Across Frontiers Conference
3 May 2006
9 a.m. – 6 p.m
Internet Café, National Gallery - Veletržní palác (The Trade Fairs Palace)
Dukelských hrdinů Street 47
The conference is being held as a collaboration between Svět knihy, Ltd. and Literature Across Frontiers, Mercator Centre, University of Wales, Aberswyth, with Content and Consulting, with support from the Culture 2000 project, the Czech UNESCO Commission and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, with contribution from the following organisations:
Arts Council England, Finnish Literature Abroad, Institu Ramon llull, Latvian Literature Centre, Next Page Foundation, Nordbok – Nordic Committee for Books and Libraries, Polish Book Institute.
SECTION I
Translations of Slavonic Literature from Non-EU States in the Publishing Schemes
The wider presentation of Slavonic literature at the BookWorld Prague 2006 book fair will include a half-day panel discussion. The section of the conference moderated by Dr. Tomáš Glanc, the current director of the Czech Centre in Moscow and professor at the Charles University’s Institute of East European and Slavonic Studies, will feature publishers and literary experts from Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who will present the up-to-date literary offer from their countries and acquaint the conference’s participants with mutual translations of Slavonic literature.
SECTION II
Independent Publishing – Development – Innovation – Impulses
The section’s moderator Rüdiger Wischenbart (Austria) – ex-spokesman for the Frankfurter Buchmesse and book trade and communications consultant – will, together with the section’s panellists, recruiting from among representatives of leading publishing houses and international literary projects from East and West Europe – discuss both the commercial and the non-commercial aspects of the publishing of translated literature.
www.wischenbart.com
SECTION III
The Co-operation between National Organisations for Translation Support with Publishers
This last section of the conference, focusing on both discussion and presentation, logically follows from the other two. It will introduce the various opportunities for acquiring support for the publishing of literary translations and the various forms of co-operation with the organisations providing support for the dissemination of translations, publishers and book fairs. The panellists of the section, chaired by the European programme Literature Across Frontiers manage Alexandra Büchler (UK), will include representatives of key public organisations from England, Finland, Catalonia, Poland, the regional Nordic organisation Nordbok and the European Commission.
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Annotation - Session I (*.doc, 27kB)
Annotation - Session II (*.doc, 25kB)
Annotation - Session III (*.doc, 26kB)
Application (*.pdf, 417kB)
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