British Centre for Literary Translation

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Britain’s leading centre for the study and support of literary translation.

These workshops truly highlighted what this summer school is about: allowing people with a passion to come together, and strengthening the community of literary translators – a job which, as everybody I have spoken to underlined, can be very tough and lonely. Lonely was the opposite of what the whole week was like: there was a lot of laughter, fun, smiles...

BCLT Intern 2017

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Many years later, as he faced the Google firing squad, José Luiz Passos was to remember that distant afternoon when the BCLT took him to discover translation.”

quote from José Luiz Passos' article Me and the BCLT (translated by Lucy Greaves)

This is what one week at BCLT can do for you. Or to you. I haven't been able to figure out yet.

quote from Carlos Gamerro's article Me and the BCLT

The first time I heard of the British Centre for Literary Translation, I was sure someone was being cruel to me. For someone trying to carve out three hours from a day where the regular job always leaked into all 24, the BCLT was not just a dream, it was a paradise that seemed unreal and, therefore, nothing but a sadistic joke being inflicted on me.

quote from Arunava Sinha's article Me and the BCLT

I was suddenly struck with the realization that there are others out there like me, others who sit up late by the cold glow of the computer screen, wondering whether it was better if the narrator watched the dogs raging, or rampaging, or going wild, or running rampant?

quote from Elisabeth Jaquette's article Me and the BCLT

The BCLT has brought Words without Borders, and me, many excellent things.

quote from Susan Harris' article Me and the BCLT

Every time I arrive at the BCLT corridor, even now, I still feel that same sense of belonging. A sense of coming home.

quote from Josephine Balmer's article Me and the BCLT

Translation is no fun if you keep it to yourself.

quote from Anna Holmwood's article Me and the BCLT

Attending a literary workshop co-arranged by the BCLT, Oxford University Press and the British Council would surely have been on the top of my to-do-list

quote from Anas Mehmood's article Me and the BCLT

In the beginning was the Word. And the BCLT was there, making sure everyone could read it in their own language.

quote from Alex Valente's article Me and the BCLT

European literature means writing in Europe by writers living in Europe, whatever the language they [are] writing in and this therefore includes exiled and other writers from beyond the borders of ‘Europe’

Quote from Stephen Watts' article Me and the BCLT

It's no exaggeration to say that I wouldn't have the career I do without the BCLT. I've been on a mad 3-year journey from clueless-yet-enthusiastic MA student to practicing literary translator.

Quote from Lucy Greaves' article Me and the BCLT

I once had the luck to arrive late for a Russian play at a London theatre, only to find it was sold out. Good luck, because I got chatting to a man in the foyer, who turned out to be the great translator of Russian literature, Michael Glenny

quote from Antonia Lloyd Jones' article Me and the BCLT

The final choice does not lie or depend on the original words at all. That was one of the most valuable, liberating lessons we learnt in Tarazona.

Quote from Ana Alcaina's article Me and the BCLT

The connection with BCLT and the translation community has meant a lot to me personally whose experience of translation was previously limited to Latin A level unseens.

quote from Richard Alford's article Me and the BCLT

I couldn't believe it. I was finally going to be a published, credited literary translator. And get paid for it.

quote from Dan Bradley's article Me and the BCLT

Translating poetry in a group, at the speed of an elderly snail, taught me that prose translation can be done in just as inventive a way.

Quote from Katy Derbyshire's article Me and the BCLT

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