The competition to translate a short passage from Annett Gröschner’s recent novel Walpurgisnacht (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2011) has just opened.

Complementing the series organised by the IMLR in partnership with the University of Nottingham, Annett Gröschner and her translator, Katy Derbyshire, will feature at the next Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation at the IMLR on 10 December, which will be followed by the prize-giving.

The competition is open to secondary school pupils, undergraduates and postgraduates, and anyone else who feels equal to the challenge of translating Gröschner’s prose into English, and entries will be judged by a panel of academics and professional translators. Among the prizes are a DAAD scholarship for a summer language course at a German university, participation in a translation master class at the University of Cambridge and/or London; an invitation to a workshop/panel discussion on translation at the University of Cambridge followed by dinner at Magdalene College, and a number of book prizes. Prize-winners will also be invited to meet Annett Gröschner and Katy Derbyshire before their Encounter on 10 December. The closing date for entries is Friday, 6 November 2015.

The competition is organised under the auspices of the DAAD (London), the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, the University of Nottingham, the Cambridge German Network, and the Goethe-Institut London, and is sponsored by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, German Embassy (London), and the Greater London German Network.

More about Encounters: Writers and Translators in Conversation

Jane Lewin

IMLR Trusts Administrator/Events Manager

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