The Georgian National Book Center, in partnership with the British Council, Writers’ Centre Norwich and the British Centre for Literary Translation is delighted to announce a call for applications for a Literary Translation workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 7th to 11th September 2015.

The literary translation workshop will offer eight Georgian and English-language literary translators the opportunity to work together and discuss in depth the challenges of translating from English into Georgian and from Georgian into English.

The programme consists of five days of intensive hands-on translation activity. The workshops will be led by respected literary translators Elizabeth Heighway and Tamar Japaridze.

English-Georgian and/or Georgian-English early to mid-career professionals in the field of literary translation are invited to submit an application by 15th May 2015.

Candidates are asked to fill in a form available online, and to send their CVs and a short sample translation - original and translated text, maximum 500 words. Applications should be submitted electronically to maghlakelidze@book.gov.ge.

The results of the selection process will be announced by 29th June 2015.


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