Registration for the Bristol Translates 2025 NORLA keynote speech by Damion Searls is now open: go to the link below to register by email.

When? 7th July 17:00 BST
Where? Join online from wherever you are in the world!

Search 'Bristol Translates Summer School' to find our website and our application form. Places on the workshops are given on a first-come first-served basis, so be sure to apply soon - if your language isn't offered, we are also running a multilanguage session with
Daniel Hahn!

Applications are still open for Bristol Translates 2025 - search 'Bristol Translates summer school' to find our full programme.

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🚨Today is your final chance to benefit from the early-bird discount for Bristol Translates 2025.

See the following link www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/translat... for our application form, full programme, and information about our tutors and speakers!

Search 'Bristol Translates' to find our application form and programme!

⏰So... The early-bird discount deadline for BT2025 is on the 31st of March - you can apply now by going to the link below.

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Our keynote speech this year will be given by renowned translator Damion Searls. The translator of not one, but seven Nobel laureates, Damion's expertise ranges from complex philosophy to poetry. He is the translator of #JonFosse's work.

The deadlines for scholarship applications and early-bird discounts are fast approaching! Apply to Bristol Translates 2025 by 15th March for scholarships, and by 31st March for the discounted price!

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Polly Barton's translation of Asako Yuzuki's Butter was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2024. Other work includes Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, So We Look to the Sky by Misumi Kubo and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai.

Morgan Giles has translated authors including Yu Miri, Hideo Furukawa, Hitomi Kanehara, and Nao-cola Yamazaki. Her translation of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri received the Translators Association's First Translation Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature.

'I found all of Bristol Translates pretty wonderful, but the translation workshops were particularly so – intellectually stimulating, fun, collaborative, fascinating. They have left me feeling determined to go further into literary translation.'

Find our application form below!

Some very exciting news from @commapress.bsky.social and Bristol Translates 2025. Open to translators from #Chinese, #Japanese and #Urdu, winners of the Comma Press Emerging Translator Award will be considered for publication in an upcoming anthology! Applications for #BT2025 are still open.

Applications for Bristol Translates 2025 are still open - send in your applications before the 28th February for scholarship places, and before the 31st March for the early-bird discount. Search 'Bristol Translates' to find our application form.

📢We are enormously excited to announce that the keynote speaker for Bristol Translates 2025 will be Damion Searls, translator of Nobel laureate Jon Fosse and seven other Nobel prize-winners.

⏰Applications for Bristol Translates 2025 are now open!

Join us for a 5 day online summer school from 7 to 11 July 2025. There will be three days of translation workshops in eleven languages with leading translators in each language.