nia davies communications manager nia@lit-across-frontiers lit-across-frontiers

Nia DaviesCommunications Managernia@lit-across-frontiers.orgwww.lit-across-frontiers.org

Literature Across Frontiers aims

to advance cultural exchange in Europe and beyond in the field of literature and translation (through multilateral cooperation)

10 years of LAF

73 festivals

54 translation workshops in 17 countries in 40 languages

5,000 translations

50 bookfairs

36 issues of Transcript

LAF is a network

48 partners & associates in & outside the EU

workshops

• Festivals• Book fairs

research

Recent Projects- Word Express- Metropoetica

Transcript

The LAF digital portal• Community for writer-translators• Redesigned Transcript• Information, news and resources on

translation in Europe

The Translator…

E-lit networked

- Does a community-led approach to e-lit publishing help or hinder inter-language literary exchange?

- Who are the e-lit translators? - How can we help them and thus help e-lit

practitioners from small/minority/underserved languages to go beyond self publishing?

• Training translators• Networks of information, people,

organisations• Developing audiences• An e-lit issue of Transcript