Mentoring
BCLT Mentoring Programme
We are delighted to announce the award of our 2013 translation mentorships. Sixteen mentorships were awarded in 15 languages
2013 Mentorships
Arabic
Ruth Ahmedzai
mentored by Paul Starkey
Chinese
Philip Hand
mentored by Nicky Harman
Danish
Paul Russell Garrett
mentored by Barbara Haveland
Dutch
Laura Williams
mentored by David Colmer
Italian
Lisa McCreadie
mentored by Howard Curtis
Greek
Marion Forsyth
mentored by David Connolly
Japanese
David Boyd
mentored by Michael Emmerich
Norwegian
Sean Kinsella
mentored by Don Bartlett
Polish
Sean Bye
mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Portuguese
Robin Patterson
mentored by Margaret Jull Costa
Russian
Rebecca Gould
mentored by Robert Chandler
Swedish
Alice Menzies
mentored by Sarah Death
Tamil
Preetha Mani
mentored by Lakshmi Holmstrom
Turkish – prose
John Angliss
mentored by Maureen Freely
Turkish – poetry
Derick Mattern
mentored by Sasha Dugdale
Welsh
Sian Dafydd
mentored by Tony Bianchi
About the Mentoring Programme
The BCLT Mentoring Programme in association with the Translators Association offers opportunities to emerging translators who are just beginning a career in literary translation.
Launched in 2010, the scheme has already produced fourteen mentorship ‘graduates’ in languages ranging from Catalan to Polish. Mentors and mentees work together in a combination of face to face meetings and also through online communication such as email or Skype.
Our Mentorship Programme Co-ordinator, Sarah Bower, writes more about the scheme in Issue 38 of In Other Words
The BCLT Mentorship Programme is supported by
Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation
Brazil National Library
Brazilian Embassy
The British Council
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
CASAW
Dutch Foundation for Literature
Foyle Foundation
The Nippon Foundation
NORLA
Norwegian Embassy
Mikhail Prokhorov Fund
Polish Cultural Institute
Danish Arts Council
Translators House Wales
Wales Literature Exchange
First Lines
A limited number of copies are still available of First Lines, an anthology of work from the 2012 Mentorship scheme.
2014 Mentoring Programme
Details of our 2014 Mentoring Programme will be announced in autumn 2013.
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Opportunities
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Summer School
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Publications
Information about our publications including In Other Words, the journal for practising literary translators.
