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Agency

About us

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Contacts

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Nicole Witt

Director

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Carolin Janitschke

Accounting and assistance

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Ute Evers

Contracts and assistance

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Nikolas Freitag

Assistance

Accounting

All inquiries related to accounting.

Contracts

All inquiries related to contracts.

Info

General information and requests.

Partners and Participations

Our Co-Agents

Grants for Translation and Publication

ARGENTINA
Programa – SUR de apoyo a las traducciones
www.programa-sur.mrecic.gov.ar

BRAZIL
Brazilian National Library
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional – Ministério da Cultura
www.gov.br/cultura/2023/inscricoes-abertas/Regulamentocopiladoemtodasaslnguas.pdf
Please note the new application deadlines for translations grants.

CHILE
Fondos de Cultura
Translation Grant Pilot Program/Línea de Apoyo a la Traducción
www.fondosdecultura.gob.cl

COLOMBIA
Reading Colombia, co-financing program for the translation and promotion of Colombian literary and scientific works in foreign languages
www.camlibro.com.co

GERMANY
Society for the Promotion of Asian, African and Latinamerican Literature.
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Literatur aus Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika.
www.litprom.de

MEXICO
Grants for the Translation of Mexican Books
Programa de Apoyo a la Traducción de Obras Mexicanas a Lenguas Extranjeras (ProTrad)
fonca.cultura.gob.mx/convocatorias/abiertas/

PORTUGAL
Portuguese Book Institute
Direcção Geral do Livro e das Bibliotecas – DGLB
(formerly: Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas – IPLB)
www.livro.dglab.gov.pt

Translation funding
http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/divulgacaoEstrangeiro/apoioTraducaoeEdicao.aspx
http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/English/BookDepartment/PromotionAbroad.aspx

Support for publishing in Brazil
http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/Portugues/divulgacaoEstrangeiro/EdicaoBrasil/.aspx

Support for illustrations and Comics
http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/DesenhadaIlustracao.aspx
http://livro.dglab.gov.pt/sites/DGLB/PictureBooksGrants.aspx

Camões Institute
Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
https://www.instituto-camoes.pt/

SPAIN
Grants for the Translation of books written in Spanish language (also by non-Spanish authors) or in any co- official language of Spain:
Subvenciones en régimen de concurrencia competitiva para el fomento de la traducción a lenguas extranjeras
www.mcu.es
www.mcu.es/TraduccionLenguaExtranjera_triptico.pdf

Press

International Stage at the Frankfurt Book Fair

December 15th, 2023|Categories: Participations, Press, English|

// On October 21, the International Stage of the Frankfurter Buchmesse presented "Almeida and Mairal: Two of the most emblematic authors on Argentina’s contemporary literary scene", a round table with María Eugenia Almeida and Sebastián Martínez Daniell. The discussion was led by Nicole Witt and focused on the contemporary Argentine literature and the [...]

Evolution of the Translator (LBF 2023)

March 31st, 2023|Categories: Participations, English, Special Projects|

At this year´s London Book Fair 2023, Nicole Witt has been invited to contribute to the panel "Evolution of the Translator". The panel will take place in the Literary Translation Centre on Wednesday 19th April 2023, from 11:05 until 11:50 am. How has the role of the translator evolved over the [...]

Brazil: Books to turn the page. A report by Bernardo Gutiérrez

December 23rd, 2022|Categories: Press, Spanish|

// Nicole Witt interviewed by Bernardo Gutiérrez for El Periódico de España. // Brazilian fiction has hardened. Both new voices (Tatiana Salem Levy, Itamar Vieira Junior, Geovani Martins, Morgana Kretzmann) and established names (Chico Buarque, Paulo Lins, Patrícia Melo) deal bluntly with the racism, classism, machismo, violence and hatred that [...]

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Lectura y charla con Esther Paniagua y Mónica Subietas

June 15th, 2022|Categories: Press, Spanish|

// El 01/07/2022 a las 20:00 Lectura y charla con Esther Paniagua y Mónica Subietas: El colapso de la civilización. El Instituto Cervantes presenta a dos autoras españolas en el festival de literatura literaTurm de Fráncfort: Esther Paniagua y Mónica Subietas. Moderación: Nicole Witt En coorganización con AC/E y la [...]

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