Events

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Upcoming

22.09.2023

We care about literary translation

19.10.2023 13:00 CET

We care about literary translation Networking event hosted by RECIT, Looren and Pro Helvetia ➡...
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Past events

06.09.2023 19:00

22.08.2023 19:00

06.07.2023 18:30

23.06.2023 17:00

The Importance of Literary Translation Residencies

17.06.2023 11:30

The Importance of Literary Translation Residencies Conversation and Presentation of the Mapping of...
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08.06.2023 18:00

Second session of the International Academy on Literary Management and Translation Promotion

18.05.2023 - 22.05.2023

International Academy on Literary Management and Translation Promotion Second session: May 18th - 2...
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15.05.2023 18:30

11.05.2023

10.05.2023 18:30

09.05.2023

04.05.2023 17:00 - 18:30

26.04.2023

Literature and Translation Garden

23.04.2023 15:00

Literature and Translation Garden Sunday volunteering in the Sofia Literature and Translation Hous...
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Translation in Motion at the London Book Fair

19.04.2023

Translation in Motion at the London Book Fair The session will explore the ways in which we can...
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16.03.2023 18:30

I fought the clichés... And the clichés won

12.03.2023 18:30

I fought the clichés... And the clichés won Slovenian writer Miha Mazzini in conversa...
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02.03.2023 17:00

24.02.2023 18:30

10.02.2023

15.12.2022 18:30

08.12.2022 16:00

06.12.2022 16:00

Poetry and freedom in Belarus. Conversation and poetry reading with Dimiter Kenarov and Hanna Komar

24.11.2022 19:30

Poetry and freedom in Belarus Conversation and poetry reading with Dimiter Kenarov and Hanna Komar...
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16.11.2022 18:30

13.11.2022 16:00

25.10.2022 18:30

International Poetry in English Translation

28.09.2022 19:00

International Poetry in English Translation Angela Rodel in conversation with James Appleby ➡ Se...
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23.09.2022

18.09.2022 18:30

Balkan Studio for Literary Translation Vice Versa

15.09.2022

Balkan Studio for Literary Translation Vice Versa Literary translation workshops, lectures, discuss...
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01.09.2022 18:30

31.08.2022 18:30

29.08.2022 18:30

9+1 Rabbits: Poetry reading and conversation between Virginia Zakharieva and Radmila Petrović

25.08.2022 18:30

9+1 Rabbits: Poetry reading and conversation between Virginia Zakharieva (Bulgaria) and Radmila Pet...
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On new Kosovar literature: А conversation between Azem Deliu and Peter Dentchev

28.07.2022 18:30

On new Kosovar literature А conversation between Azem Deliu (Kosovo) and Peter Dentchev (Bulgaria)...
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21.07.2022 20:00

वितोशा पहाड़ों पर धूप Bulgarian poetry in Hindi and a conversation with the translator Pankhuri Sinha

16.06.2022 18:30

तोशा पहाड़ों पर धूप Bulgarian poetry in Hindi and a conversation with the translator Pankhuri Sinha...
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09.06.2022 18:30

03.06.2022 18:30

02.06.2022 18:30

27.05.2022 18:30

25.05.2022 18:30

Translations Collider Academy: International Academy on Literary Management and Translation Promotion

13.05.2022 - 18.05.2022

International Academy on Literary Management and Translation Promotion May 13th - 18th, 2022 - Stru...
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20.04.2022 19:00

16.12.2021 18:30

11.12.2021 18:30

Balkan Translations Collider at Sofia International Literary Festival

11.12.2021 - 20:15

Balkan Translations Collider Presentation of the results of six studies on translated literature...
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24.11.2021 19:00

Hello, Stranger: A Conversation of Nadhezda Radoulova with Will Buckingham

18.11.2021 18:30

Hello, Stranger A Conversation of Nadhezda Radoulova with Will Buckingham ➡ November 18 (Thursda...
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28.10.2021 18:00

14.10.2021 19:00

29.09.2021 18:30

Autumn Studio for Literary Translation 2021

24.09.2021 - 03.10.2021

Autumn Studio for Literary Translation 2021 Literary translation workshops, lectures, discussions,...
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08.09.2021 19:00

25.08.2021 18:30

19.08.2021 19:00

03.08.2021 19:00

Plainly visible - Photographs of Translators

24.07.2021 20:30

Plainly visible - Photographs of Translators Conversation with Anja Kapunkt ➡ Saturday, July 24,...
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Back to back / Face to face

09.07.2021 19:00

Back to back / Face to face A bilingual reading of Bulgarian writers and their English-language tra...
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Online Reading from the Phren-Z Zoom Forward Series

03.07.2021 03:00

Online Reading from the Phren-Z Zoom Forward Series with Eireene Nealand, Bistra Velichkova, Auro...
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Existentialism French film night: Marguerite Duras’ Le camion with translators’ discussion

03.07.2021 20:30

Existentialism French film night: Marguerite Duras’ Le camion with translators’ discussi...
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24.06.2021 18:00

Thousands of Little Feathers: A workshop on translating Bulgarian poetry into English

11.06.2021 17:00 - 19:00

Thousands of Little Feathers A workshop on translating Bulgarian poetry into English with Eire...
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09.06.2021 18:30

27.05.2021 19:00

25.05.2021 19:00

13.05.2021 19:00

22.04.2021 19:00

06.04.2021 19:00

13.11.2020 9:00 - 17:00

Autumn Studio for Literary Translation 2020

24.09.2020 - 27.09.2020

Literary translation workshops, lectures, discussions, practical modules, networking The second S...
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13.12.2019 17:00

Que fait un agent littéraire exactement ? Une présentation de Pierre Astier et Laure Pécher

13.11.2019 11:00

Une brume mythologique enveloppe le travail des agents littéraires et nous fait les comparer,...
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Literature in the city

07.11.2019 17:00

A presentation and a conversation (in English) with Ana Marija Grbić on the "literary infrastructure...
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NORTH IS SOUTH. Neva Micheva in conversation with Eugenio Arriazu (Argentina) and Olga Khokhlova (Russia)

24.10.2019 18:30

The current translators-in-residents at the Sofia Literature and Translation House Olga Khokhlova (R...
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21.10.2019 17:30 - 19:30

18.10.2019 10:00 - 12:00

Meet the writer Marcus Sedgwick (Great Britain)

10.10.2019 18:00 - 19:30

Creative writing workshop with the writer Marcus Sedgwick (Great Britain)

09.10.2019 14:00 - 15:30

The Transparent Translator… and other actions

29.09.2019 17:00 - 19:00

15.09.2019 - 01.06.2020

Autumn Studio for Literary Translation

13.09.2019 - 29.09.2019

Workshops on literary translation, lectures, practical modules, networking, discussions 13-15 Sep...
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Reading Kerouac in Tehran: politics of literature and translation in Iran

22.08.2019 18:30 - 20:00

Farid Ghadami (Iran) in conversation with Todor P. Todorov on literature and politics, on the art of...
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Do we read each other with Albania?

18.07.2019 18:30

Travels and Travelogues in the Time of Cheap Flights

26.06.2019 18:30

A conversation on the art of travelling with your eyes wide open and on what it takes to write a goo...
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Historical prose writing: a workshop with Thomas McGonigle

22.06.2019 17:00 - 19:30

Join novelist and book reviewer Thomas McGonigle in exploring various approaches towards writing abo...
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Saturday Afternoon Poetry Translation. Lyudmila Mindova and Dinko Telecan (Croatia)

15.06.2019 17:00 - 19:30

Collaborative translation workshop with Ludmila Mindova and Dinko Telećan (Croatia) A curious wor...
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Book launch of ,,The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov’’ by Thomas McGonigle

06.06.2019 18:30

From both sides of language: Leonie Hodkevich and Albena Stambolova in conversation

30.05.2019

The American Poetry Scene: Dennis Maloney and Vladimir Levchev

27.05.2019 18:30

American publisher, poet and translator Dennis Maloney meets his Bulgarian colleague Vladimir Levche...
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Bulgarian and Ukrainian avantgard and postmodernism – translatability and untranslatability

08.05.2019 18:00

The Transparent Translator at the Sofia International Literary Festival

13.12.2018 15:00 - 16:30

Thomas Framm and Kristin Dimitrova: Bulgaria in today’s literature in German

05.12.2018 18:30

Translator’s Thursday with professor Ana Dimova

15.11.2018 18:30

Surprises and pleasures in poetry translation: Miriam Van hee and Borjana Kacarska

07.11.2018 18:30

The Flemish award-winning poetess and poetry translator Miriam Van hee in conversation with Boryana...
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Translator’s Thursday with Andreas Tretner and Maya Rasboinikova

25.10.2018 18:30

Euskara, literature and translation

17.10.2018 18:30

Gespräch mit Leander Steinkopf

19.09.2018 18:30

Der Autor erzählt über seine literarischen Arbeitsmethoden und Strategien, den Weg zur Her...
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The translator and her author: Helle Daalgard and Georgi Gospodinov in conversation

18.09.2018 18:00

Documentary screening and a talk with the artist Stefan Çapaliku (Albania)

26.07.2018 18:30

This Thursday we present the work of the writer-in-residence Stefan Çapaliku. Çapaliku...
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Creative Residencies: pros & cons

23.05.2018 18:30

A public discussion with representatives of literary and translation centers, members of the Europea...
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El Traductor Transperante

17.05.2018 18:30

Poetry and poetry translations: Mirela Ivanova and Stevan Tontic (Serbia)

19.04.2018

Alphabet species and visual poetry

30.10.2017 17:30

Opening of Ivan Kiuranov's exhibition "Alphabet Species" followed by a presentation on visual po...
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Caution! Slippery ground!

26.10.2017 18:30

Celebrating literary translation 2017

28.09.2017 18:30

Negotin-China-Ilianci: meet the writer Miodrag Kojadinovic (Serbia)

24.08.2017 18:30

The writer Miodrag Kojadinovic is currently a Traduki-fellow at Sofia Literature and Translation Hou...
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ViceVersa Workshop 2017

27.07.2017

Die Stiftung Next Page und das Haus für Literatur und Übersetzung Sofia laden ein zur Bewe...
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Gläserner Übersetzer

27.07.2017 18:00

Literarische Übersetzer_innen aus Bulgarien, Deutschland und Luxemburg werden "live“ ihre...
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Peter Krzstev (Bulgaria/Hungary) on the untranslatable

13.07.2017 18:30

22.06.2017 18:30

Translator's Thursdays: on Dutch language translations with Anetta Datcheva

12.05.2016 17:00

Translator's Thursdays: on translating tenses with prof. Yordan Kosturkov

28.04.2016 17:00

Translation, a multivolume time: meet Magdalena Pytlak (Poland| in conversation with Vera Dejanova

19.02.2016 18:30

Voluntary migration: a discussion with Pierre Meylak (Malta|

10.12.2015 18:30

Bulgarian literature in Spanish translation

02.12.2015 18:30

Happy International Translation Day 2015

30.09.2015

Greetings for the International Translation Day! [GALLERY_228] These are faces of the - often...
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Meet children from around the world. A workshop with Petya Kokudeva

21.06.2015 11:00

Once upon a time ... with Priscilla Haul

20.06.2015 11:00

Reading comics, devicing comics: a workshop with Anton Staykov

19.06.2015 15:00

Write your own story with Zornitsa Hristova

18.06.2015 12:00

Sunday reading in the neighbourghood: Georgi Gospodinov

14.06.2015 17:00

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