Greetings from the British Council!
We are pleased to inform you that Sahitya Akademi and British Council will present a literary translations skills training programme in Delhi and Kolkata in September 2009.
The training continues the series of literature programmes that bring the writing, publishing and reading communities closer together in India and the UK, and follows the success of the India ’09 Market Focus at the London Book Fair
The training will be led by Prof Amanda Hopkinson, Director, British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia and Pratik Kanjilal of The Little Magazine .
The workshop will aim at personal and professional development for the individual, with capacity built in literary translation by developing translation theory and practical translation skills, as well as increased knowledge of supporting areas such as editing and marketing translated works.
The workshop will be held at the Sahitya Akademi premises in Kolkata on 7 and 8 September 2009 and in Delhi on 11 and 12 September 2009.
Applications are welcome from Indian translators below 35 years of age (as on 1 September 2009) who have a track record in published translation.
Translators from and to any language may apply for the training programme, though the interaction at the training programme will be primarily in English.
The selection process is competitive: we will select 15 translators for each venue who will benefit most from the skills training.
We request you to nominate / forward this to translators in contact with you.
Please visit
http://www.britishc ouncil.org/ india-projects- icd-literature.htm for more information and to complete the online application form.
Alternatively, you may also fill in the attached form and email it along with a sample of your translation to my colleague Nibedita Ghosh (nibedita.ghosh@ in.britishcounci l.org).
The deadline for receiving applications is Friday 7 August 2009.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Debanjan Chakrabarti
Head, Intercultural Dialogue, India
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