Bachmann-Prize goes Europe

Translating is crossing borders, building bridges and "poetic adaptation". For the third time now, all fourteen entries will be going online in eight languages as part of the "Bachmann Prize goes Europe" Internet project.

Bachmann Prize – more "European" than ever

The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize is undisputedly the most important literary award in the German-speaking world, along with the Joseph Breitbach Prize and the Georg Büchner Prize.

But since it was first held in 1977 the competition has polarised opinion like no other: is it a celebration of literature? A poets' market? A type of exchange? (Literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki)

 Well, the fact remains that the Bachmann Prize is still with us, and, in the 34th year of its existence it's more "European" than ever.

bachmannpreis goes Europe 

14 entries in eight languages

The aim of the "Bachmann Prize goes Europe" project is to give German-language writers a big European platform for getting published.

In addition to the English translation of the judges'- discussion – which you can read in the NEWS selection of http://bachmannpreis.eu the authors' fourteen competition entries are being translated into eight languages: English, French, Czech, Slovenian, Spanish, Italian, Croatian and English.

FGLL 2010: The literary translators

English: Stefan Tobler, Katy Derbyshire

French: Bernard Banoun, Barbara Fontaine,

Florence Tenenbaum, Gaëlle Guicheney, Jean Bertrand

Czech: Radovan Charvát

Slovenia: Amalia Macek, Urska P.Cerne

Spanish: Nicolas Gelormini

Italian: Vito Punzi

Croatia: Natasa Medved, Sabine Maric

The Festival of German-Language Literature is a series of events organised by the ORF Landesstudio Kärnten and the provincial capital of Klagenfurt in association with 3sat and the support of kelag and Hypo Group Alpe Adria.

Thanks to: all supporters, promoters and friends of the Festival of German-Language Literature. A project of this kind can only succeed if we all work together.

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