News from BCLT
New funding for digital engagement
We are pleased to announce a successful application to Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts funding programme to promote our digital engagement for literary translators.
This grant will enable us to commission a new series of FAQ films for our popular YouTube channel and to support the literary translation content on newwriting.net. We will also use the funding to carry out a user audit of our online provision and to develop the BCLT website. This will include promoting the use of social media and increasing the digital content of our journal In Other Words.
Alumni News
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto has been shortlisted for the MAN Asian Literary Prize . The Lake was translated into English by Michael Emmerich, workshop leader at the BCLT 2011 Summer School.
Under the Hawthorn Tree, a tragic love story set during the Cultural Revolution has become an international publishing sensation. It will be published later this month by Virago, translated from the Chinese by Anna Holmwood, a member of our mentoring scheme in 2011. Read an interview with Anna in Guardian Books
Supriya Kar (2009 CWIT Fellow) has been appointed Editor with Cambridge University Press, Hyderabad. In 2010, Supriya and Valerie Henitiuk co-edited One Step towards the Sun: Short Stories by Women from Orissa (http://www.swb.co.in/store/book/one-step-towards-sun).
Former BCLT Charles Wallace India Trust fellow, Manisha Chaudhry has been shortlisted for the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Manisha translated A Street in Srinagar by Chandrakanta.
Vineet Lal, a member of our mentoring scheme in 2011, has published his first book. Lacrimosa by Régis Jauffret, is published by Salammbo Press. Read more about the book L'Express described as 'a literary boxing match, a heartbreaking masterpiece where emotion is never far from the absurd' You can find out about the 2012 mentoring programme in our Opportunities section.
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