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North Wales International Poetry Festival 2013

17 October 2013

Poets from all over Europe will be performing across north Wales in October during the second…

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International Translation Day 2013

24 September 2013

Presented by Free Word, English PEN and the British Library in association with the British Centre…

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Forgetting Chatwin

13 August 2013

At the end of August four poets from Wales will travel to Buenos Aires and then on to Trelew before…

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Reading the world in Welsh

09 August 2013

Cyhoeddwyd atodiad arbennig i gylchgrawn Taliesin gan y Gyfnewidfa Lên ar Ddydd Mawrth y 6ed o…

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Gwobrwyo Her Gyfieithu 2013

09 August 2013

Anrhegwyd Ffon Farddol a gerfiwyd gan Elis Gwyn i'r Prifardd Mererid Hopwood ar faes yr Eisteddfod…

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Pigs never see the stars: Armenian literature

24 July 2013

Ask any Armenian to tell you about the literature of his or her country, and nine times out of ten…

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Wales Book of the Year 2013

24 July 2013

Blasu by Manon Steffan Ros wins the award for best Welsh-language fiction at the Wales Book of the…

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Translation Challenge 2013 at the Eisteddfod

22 July 2013

Dowch yn llu fore Mawrth y 6ed o Awst i babell Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol,…

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Translation Challenge 2013

27 June 2013

On Saturday the 22nd of June at Tŷ Newydd Cuban poet Víctor Rodríguez Núñez was filmed reading…

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Poet in residence: Jure Jakob, Slovenia

18 June 2013

Jure Jakob will be our poet in residence during June-July 2013, joining Cuban poet and translator,…

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Translation workshop with Cuban poet

14 June 2013

The 2013 Translators’ House Wales Translation Challenge will be launched on Saturday the 22nd of…

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Siân Melangell Dafydd on translation

31 May 2013

'Translating makes you read closer than ever. It forces this privilege on you. Sentences I read,…

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New translators in focus at Free Word, London

31 May 2013

The British Centre for Literary Translation will be celebrating the success of the 2013 BCLT…

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Festival of the European Short Story (FESS), Zagreb

30 May 2013

'If ever there was a moment when while working on this year’s edition of FESS we never once had to…

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David Toop yn trafod Rhodri Davies

03 May 2013

"All musical instruments come with baggage. In fact they are baggage – objects of surrealist…

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Fiction Fiesta 2013

01 May 2013

The Exchange is looking forward to Fiction Fiesta later this month (17-19th of May, 2013). We are…

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Gimbal – the interactive literary iPhone app

19 April 2013

Literature Across Frontiers and Comma Press launch a new iPhone application. Gimbal offers a new…

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Turkish poets visit Cardiff

12 April 2013

Fiction Fiesta, Literature Across Frontiers and Wales Literature Exchange will present an intimate…

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French-Occitan poet Aurélia Lassaque in Wales

08 April 2013

French-Occitan poet Aurélia Lassaque returns to Wales on her UK tour with Literature Across…

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The Guardian on Niall Griffiths' new novel

22 March 2013

'When we first meet Grace Allcock, she's prone and anaesthetised, about to get a nose-job. The…

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Three percent? New research from Literature Across Frontiers

21 March 2013

Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a new…

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Konstantin by Tom Bullough long-listed for the Prix Laure-Bataillon

21 March 2013

Mécaniques du ciel (Calmann-lévy, trans. Marie Boudewyn), the French translation of Konstantin by…

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Cynan Jones in the running for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.

19 March 2013

We are looking forward to Friday the 22nd of March and the announcement of the Sunday Times EFG…

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Project to share literary classics across the continent gets EU backing

07 March 2013

Twentieth-century literary classics by some of Wales' most renowned authors such as T.H.…

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Ifor ap Glyn at StAnza festival translation workshop

01 March 2013

Ifor ap Glyn (Wales/UK) will be working with poets Charlotte Runcie (Scotland/UK), Magnús…

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Dispatch #3 I am not an elf

12 February 2013

Christopher Meredith, Awdur Preswyl Tŷ Cyfieithu/HALMA, yn Novo Mesto, Slofenia I was in a pub in…

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Times Stephen Spender Prize

08 February 2013

The Times Stephen Spender Prize is open for entries. Translate a poem from any language, classical…

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