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Resources & opportunities

On this page, BCLT brings together a range of resources and opportunities to support literary translators, including links to organisations, associations, archives, prizes, practical resources and opportunities offered by BCLT itself.
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ESLT Summer School: The Pleasures of Literary Translation

Online, 9-11 September 2026

The theme of this year’s tenth edition of the online European School of Literary Translation is “The Pleasures of Literary Translation”.

At a time when AI is creating great uncertainty over the future of the profession, it is more important than ever for educators to be able to inspire and enthuse a new generation of translators.  This tenth edition of ESLT aims to accentuate the positive and celebrate what makes literary translation pleasurable.  It will focus on experimental, creative translation (and how computers can assist human creativity); on literary translation as a privileged mode of reading; on the translator as entrepreneur and the joys of collaborative translation.

 Confirmed faculty participants include Bojana Budimir (Belgrade), Laurens Ham (Utrecht), Susan Pickford (Geneva), Andrew Rothwell (Swansea), Melanie Strasser (Vienna) and Angela Tarantini (Utrecht).  The opening keynote will be delivered by Susanna Basso (Turin).

Application deadline is 1 June

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The David Bellos Translation Prize

Applications are open for the first ever Davis Bellos Translation Prize. The prize will be awarded to a superb translation of fiction into English with £2,000 in prize money up for grabs, as well as UK and US submission by one of our brilliant literary agents.

Application will close on May 10th 2026. An official shortlist will be announced on July 1st 2026. The winner will be announced on August 31st 2026.

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The John Dryden Prize

BCLT co-sponsors the The John Dryden Translation Competition alongside the British Comparative Literature Association. Prizes are awarded annually for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English, subject to finding a reader (entrance fee is refunded if no reader is available). Literary translation includes poetry, prose, or drama from any period. The competition is currently hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds.

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

BCLT co-sponsors the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The prize is awarded annually to the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, work of fiction for children or young adults, graphic novel, or play text, written by a woman, translated into English by a translator (or translators) of any gender, and published by a UK or Irish publisher. The £1,000 prize is divided between the writer and her translator(s), with each contributor receiving an equal share. 

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Helpful resources for literary translators

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Visit our Library

The BCLT Library, housed within the British Centre for Literary Translation at UEA, is a resource available to literary translators, researchers, UEA staff and students and the general public. Almost all of the library’s collection is available for readers to explore. Within the BCLT Library are books written in a wide variety of languages, as well as books translated into English from various languages. The library also contains reference works for the practice of literary translation, translations of poetry collections, dual-language poetry texts, journals relevant to literary translation, anthologies of translated works and biographies of writers.
 

Visit the BCLT Library on Tuesdays, 10am — 4pm. Find us in the Lakshmi Holmström Room, AHB 1.19, on the first floor of the Arts and Humanities building.

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