Translation grant
Litprom – Promoting Global Stories
Since 1984, Litprom has been a contact point for the promotion of translations for fictional works from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Arabic World, Israel, and Turkey to the German-speaking market. This initiative was and is supposed to empower the literary exchange and the publication of important works from contemporary authors from above mentioned regions. Since 2026, the programme has been jointly supported by Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Goethe-Institut under its new name, Litprom – Promoting Global Stories. The Goethe-Institut contributes its expertise from a global network as well as financial resources.
Conditions of Funding
New guideline from 2026: Each publishing house may submit only one application for a translation grant per funding round.
- Application form (to be filled out here)
- Original text as PDF
- Translation sample from the original text (at least 20 pages, meaningful, well-proofread)
- Scan of the licence or option agreement (signed on both sides)
- Scan of the translation contract (signed on both sides)
- Publisher's justification (why this book and this author)
- Publisher's calculation
Applications that do not meet the formal requirements or are incomplete cannot be processed.
If you have any questions, please contact kassler@buchmesse.de.
Application Deadline
If you have any questions, please contact kassler@buchmesse.de.
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