What is translation and how is it experienced? With Gitanjali Patel and Miia Laine

Ko Ko Thett explores the particular challenges of translating ‘Hlaingthaya’ by Thitsar Ni, a poem based on the struggles in Myanmar

On translating webtoons & Korean literature

Sawad Hussain recounts her experience of translating Najwa Bin Shatwan’s short story collection into English and the challenges of translating a work where humour is the foundation

‘I am proud to have the opportunity to present my books at a stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair’, writes Myay Hmone Lwin

Talking with Rebecca DeWald on the podcast

Visible Communities virtual writer in residence Sawad Hussain shares her advice.

Essential advice from translator Nazry Bahrawi

On the Writing Life podcast

Dutch-Aruban poet Alfred Schaffer in conversation with British writer and translator Michele Hutchison

Novelist and short story writer Tomoka Shibasaki collaborates with Japanese translator and writer Polly Barton

Visible Communities virtual writer in residence, Shash Trevett, reflects on her poetry

Translator, fiction writer, and academic researcher Ta-wei Chi in conversation with novelist, playwright and translator Jeremy Tiang

With literary translators Shash Trevett and Geetha Sukumaran

Talking on the podcast to Rebecca DeWald

A deep dive with Sarah Ardizzone, Jamie Lee Searle & Rosie Eyre

Vineet Lal reflects on his career over the past decade and shares his advice for emerging translators

Blog & podcast featuring translator William Gregory

NCW announces new three-year partnership with the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA

by Amelia Platt

Published author Thomas Heerma van Voss shares his techniques

‘When someone translates your story it feels a bit like starting a conversation with a silent but attentive reader.’

The National Centre for Writing is delighted to announce the mentees selected for the 2020-21 Literary Translator Mentorships Programme

Swedish author Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde in conversation with translator, poet and editor Elizabeth Clark Wessel

Charlotte Coombe’s new collaborative resource

Cypriot writer Constantia Soteriou in conversation with translator Lina Protopapa

Translator Sarah Ardizzone is on the podcast

Kate Griffin talks to our former writer in residence

From the familiar to the surreal, our hand pick of essential books from writers across the world

Thinking about a career in literary translation? International Booker Prize-longlisted translator Sophie Hughes offers some early advice

Motoyuki Shibata is on the podcast

Nuril Basri’s journey to becoming a writer

We talk to Ekaterina Petrova on this week’s podcast

Live from London Book Fair 2019

Kate Griffin reports from the RECIT annual meeting in Hungary

Talking to Kate Griffin

In conversation with Kate Griffin

by Dragon Hall writer in residence Jeongrye Choi

Pam Allen’s article, originally published in Issue 50 of In Other Words

Bringing books to people

From Emerging Translator Mentorships to a busy career in literary translation

with Sara Khalili

In conversation with Gerbrand Bakker, David Colmer and Andrew Burton

Talking with Susan Harris and Samantha Schnee from Words Without Borders

Somrita Ganguly and Arunava Sinha share their experience of working together on the Emerging Translator Mentorship programme

‘Writers can produce literature about difficult and traumatic aspects of history, whereas historians may be constrained by the ideology of their times’

Talking with translator Canan Marasligil

Introducing Choi Jeongrye and Jun Sung Hyun from Korea

Crowdfunding translation

‘The joys and challenges of being a writer were, apparently, universal.’

In conversation with Letyar Tun

Kate Griffin at the Myanmar Literature Conference

A look back at our fantastic visitors to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature this year

Korean writer Paik Gahuim spends two months in Norwich

‘For me the name Norwich had been connected to Norwich football club and W.G. Sebald’

Professor Andrew Cowan from the University of East Anglia on his visit to Ljubljana UNESCO City of Literature

Atar J. Hadari, Kari Dickson and Ruth Clarke on their experience at Cove Park

A two-part conversation about Aoko Matsuda, one of Japan’s most promising young writers.

Episode one focuses on the KESHIKI chapbook series

Somrita Urni Ganguly on her Cove Park residency

‘Norwich has inspired me with its authenticity’

‘I fell in love with Norwich once I stepped on its roads’

Highlights from the celebration at the British Library

Frank Wynne on translating the world’s ‘most favoured language’

On Indonesian literature, addressing taboos and increasing literacy rates among young people

Winners announced on International Translation Day

WCN Programme Assistant Vicki Maitland reports from the BCLT Summer School

Applications open for Lithuanian strand of Emerging Translator Mentorships

Flo Reynolds sits in on the Multilingual Poetry Workshop

The Japanese writer and translator is one of our next writers-in-residence

The writer, editor and translator looks forward to her residency in Norwich

Call for applications

‘India, of a thousand gods and one religion: cricket.’

Listen to Michael Longley deliver the W. G. Sebald Lecture on literary translation

Prestigious BCLT residential summer school now open for applications

KESHIKI series now available to purchase online

Ngugi wa Thiong’o on his career and the issues surrounding writing and translation today

Our Korean writer-in-residence for 2016, award-winning children’s author O Juyeong, reflects on her love of children’s literature.

Kate Griffin reports from the second leg of the Great Feast of Languages in Singapore

WCN announces winners of the coveted Programme

Motoyuki Shibata on his residency

An introduction from our Korean writer in residence

Hannah Salvi reports from the BCLT International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School

Mariko Nagai ends her residency in Norwich UNESCO City of Literature

Mariko Nagai discovers Norwich’s voices

Tales from Link the Worlds

An introduction from our second Japanese writer in residence

Introducing Mariko Nagai

1935 – 2016

Kate Griffin reports on a fortnight in Japan

WCN staff and Norwich writers form cultural connections with Kolkata, India

Han Kang Reports from the BCLT Summer School

WCN Programme Assistant Tina García reflects on this year’s summer school

Kate Griffin reports back from Link the Wor(l)ds in Myanmar

A National Conversation Event with Ali Smith

The Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich