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Events for Translators

We are offering regular events for emerging and established literary translators of all language combinations.

Feel free to use this opportunity to discuss practical and theoretical joys and issues related to your work!

Event series

  • hybrid

    Translators' Stammtisch

    The Translators’ Stammtisch is free to attend and open to experienced and emerging literary translators of all language combinations. Join us in-person or online for this hybrid meeting of our regular translators’ get-together!

    Translator's Stammtisch © Goethe-Institut Glasgow © Goethe-Institut Glasgow

  • online

    In Their Own Words

    Our reading group for translators is free and open to all translators, near and far, working in any language pair, who have an interest in the background questions, the theory and ethics of translation. Sessions are currently paused and will continue in 2026.

    Wooden talking heads welcoming you in various languages © Canva © Canva

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  • Technology and Literature

    A.I. AND LITERARY TRANSLATION

    Is Artificial Intelligence advanced enough to grasp and process literary texts in all their linguistic richness, and translate them into another language? 

    What makes a "good" translation? Philippos Vassiliades | CC-BY-SA Philippos Vassiliades | CC-BY-SA

  • worldwide

    Translation funding

    Our translation funding programme for publishers supports the publication of translated books by German authors.

    A pile of books © Goethe-Institut/ Loredana La Rocca © Goethe-Institut/ Loredana La Rocca

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