[Reader-list] Literary Translations Workshop in September in Calcutta & Delhi

[Chandni Parekh]

I haven't attached the application form. Mail them if you want it.

*From:* Ghosh, Nibedita
*Sent:* 30 July 2009
***Subject:* Literary Translations Workshop : Invitation

Dear All

We are organising a Literary Translations Workshop in September in Kolkata
and Delhi. We are inviting applications from young translators within 35
years of age (last date – 7 August 2009)

Request you to please send the following mailer to all your contacts.

Thanks

Nibedita

_____________________________________________

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* <http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/>

The training will be led by Prof Amanda Hopkinson, Director, *British Centre
for Literary Translation, University of East
Anglia*<http://www.uea.ac.uk/bclt>and Pratik Kanjilal of
***The Little Magazine* <http://www.littlemag.com/>**** .

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.britishcouncil.org/india-projects-icd-literatur
e.htm* <http://www.britishcouncil.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 at in.britishcouncil.org* <nibedita.ghosh at in.britishcouncil.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

<<Application Form.doc>>