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Translators' House Wales's programme of activity includes residencies, workshops and our annual Translation Challenge, now in its fifth year. Click on the navigation above for more information. The deadline for receiving applications to our short residencies programme for January 2014 is the 25th of November, 2013. Further information here. Photographs from last year's residency can be found here.

We will be posting here interviews with writers and translators. 

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Wales Literature Exchange leads and organises translation workshops

Alongisde our sister organisation Literature Across Frontiers, we host a number of translation workshops, as part of our commitment to the development of literary translators in Wales.

 

Poetry translation workshop with poets Zoë Skoulding and Samira Negrouche in Canolfan Arad Goch, Aberystwyth (September 2019).

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Translators' House Wales regularly hosts translation workshops as part of its activity programme. A regular feature is the bi-annual weekend workshop for all those interested in literary translation in Wales, organised by Wales Literature Exchange in partnership with The Association of Welsh Translators and Interpreters. Our most recent workshop in the calender was organised by Wales Literature Exchange in the lead-up to the North Wales International Poetry Festival last autumn. 

Our latest call for our short residencies programme to take place in January 2014 is available here. The deadline for receiving applications is November the 25th, 2013.

From time to time we will add postcards received by the Exchange here.

A selection of images taken during Exchange related projects and events.

The Translation Challenge and Her Gyfieithu were established in 2009 in order to promote and celebrate the crucial contribution that translators make to enabling literature to travel across frontiers. Through the work of literary translators, authors and poets can reach new audiences as well as internationalise their careers. The prizes are also a recognition of literary translation as one of the creative arts and they aim to encourage new and emerging literary translators.

This year, the poems to translate are Inspekcja z Londynu, Wiadomość z wyspy Wight and Wyspa koronek by contemporary Polish poet, Wioletta Greg.

The winner of the challenge will be announced at a special event at Hay Festival.

To read more about how to enter and about the challenge, click here.

We will be posting details of Translators' House Wales projects here as they develop.

You will find here artists who have been involved in our projects or welcomed as our writers and translators in residence in Wales and abroad through partner houses.

 

The secretariat for Translators’ House Wales lies with Wales Literature Exchange, the literary translation junction, at the Mercator Institute, Aberystwyth University.

 

Browse our database of Welsh literature in translation below. Bear with us as we work on adding our full database of translations here as we will be continually updating the database.

Some recent new translations include an Italian translation of Paul Henry’s collection of poetry, The Glass Aisle, which was selected to our Bookcase in 2018. The translation, il corridoio di vetro, was translated into Italian by Chiara de Luca and published by Edizioni Kolibris. We were very pleased to receive copies of the Spanish translation of Y Mabinogion, Relatos galeses medievales, translated by Luciana Cordo Russo for LOM Ediciones in Chile. Al Arabi Publishing in Egypt recently published their Arabic translations of Lloyd Markham’s Bad Ideas/Chemicals (trans. Yordan Yordanov Kosturkov) and Gary Raymond’s The Golden Orphans (trans. Mohammad Osman Khalifa). Lloyd and Gary launched the translations of their books in Cairo Book Fair in January 2020. 

We have also awarded grants for the translations of anthologies of Welsh writing, including a Greek Anthology of Young Welsh Poets, published by Vakxikon Publishing with a preface by Jonathan Edwards and translated by Georgia Kavvalou. Poets featured in the anthology include Grug Muse, Hanan Issa, Iestyn Tyne and Joe Dunthorne. Meanwhile we eagerly await the arrival of the Japanese translation of The Library of Wales Short Story Anthology, published by Horinouchi Publishing. 

Wales Literature Exchange Translation Grants for Publishers

 

Wales Literature Exchange's Translation Grants Fund is supported by the Arts Council of Wales. All applications awarded are subject to this financial commitment.

Our Bookcase, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation. 

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Browse our Bookcases, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.

Wales Literature Exchange is based at the Mercator Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David

To make an appointment with the Exchange at forthcoming bookfairs, please contact us at post@waleslitexchange.org

Wales Literature Exchange is based at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David with offices at Lampeter and Carmarthen.  We share our offices with Literature Across Fronters and other projects associated with Mercator.

Our library of translations is open - by appointment - to translators, researchers and the public.

Wales Literature Exchange
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Carmarthen: Adeilad Dewi, College Rd, Carmarthen SA31 3EP

Lampeter: Old College, College Rd, Lampeter SA48 7ED
 

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Visit our Gallery for images of our activities and Postcards received from authors. Our Film section features our archive of videos, curated by BAFTA award-winning film-maker, Sara Penrhyn Jones. More recently, we have a series of videos created by authors featured on our Bookcase, recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown period (Spring-Summer 2020). We will continue the series by adding videos from contemporary Welsh authors selected to our Bookcase, which will be announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2020.

Translation is at the heart of what we do - all our activity engages in translation. 

Our annual Bookcase recommends recent books for translation. In our translations section you can find out what has already been published in translation worldwide. We support foreign publishers with a translation fund and we work with translators and authors in translation workshops.

The images which feature in the carousel are all related to our activity.

Since 2009, Wales Literature Exchange has held an annual Translation Challenge (both in Welsh and English), in order to promote and celebrate the crucial contribution that translators make to enabling literature to travel across frontiers.

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You will find here short biographies for the authors and translators who have featured in our Bookcases or in our projects. Currently posted under Welsh authors are authors whose books were selected for our Bookcases from 2009 onwards. Our archive wil be added over the coming months. The foreign authors featured have been invited as writers in residence or have participated in our projects. 

The images currently featuring in the carousel are those of Welsh authors: Damian Walford Davies photographed by Sara Penrhyn Jones during the creation of our short film featuring Suit of Lights; photographer Alice Fiorilli's portraits of Rachel Trezise and Cynan Jones, at home in the Rhondda Valley and the costal town of Aberaeron respectively; Joe Dunthorne, Caryl Lewis, also photographed at home on the farm in west Wales by Alice Fiorilli, Dewi Prysor, Paul Henry, Tessa Hadley and William Owen Roberts, by Aberystwyth-based photographer, Keith Morris.

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By clicking on the sub-navigation above you can browse some of our core activity, for example our presence at international bookfairs and our Bookcase. The Bookcase is selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation. 

Our translation fund is our programme of financial support to foreign publishers. The fund helps towards the cost of translating literary works from Wales. Applications can be made online or forms can be downloaded. You can also browse our database of translations published worldwide. 

The carousel images are all related to our activity.

Wales Literature Exchange: Our activities during the Covid-19 epidemic

 

Wales Literature Exchange is the translation junction connecting writers, translators and publishers in Wales and abroad.

Wales Literature Exchange works in close collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers and many other home and international partners. WLE is small, but many things: as an operator to connect publishers for the sale of translation rights, a translation grant fund for publishers, a workshop bringing together writers and translators, a library of translations, and a curator of translation events. In essence, we are a window between Wales and the world.

We celebrate the linguistic diversity that exists in the world today and are determined to contribute to its sustainability and development. Respect for languages and for translation are at the heart of international cultural exchange.

Wales Literature Exchange is committed to literary translation as a necessary element in a delicate ecology. Respect for human relations and their context in the world are vital to international exchange, and so we travel consciously, always asking why and how. Our motto is in English Translating Wales Reading the World.