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Nia Davies Communications Manager nia@lit-across-frontiers.org www.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.
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Nia Davies Communications Manager nia@lit-across-frontiers.org www.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)
10years of LAF 73 festivals54 translation workshops in 17 countries in 40 languages 5,000 translations 50bookfairs 36 issues of Transcript
LAF is a network 48 partners & associates in & outside the EU
Festivals • Book fairs
Recent Projects • Word Express • Metropoetica
The LAF digital portal • Community for writer-translators • Redesigned Transcript • Information, news and resources on translation in Europe
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