Poetry Translation Workshop, Portugal

Vila do Conde, near Porto,
North Portugal
15th – 20th March 

Bringing languages together to stimulate new translations in poetry, this workshop will give poets and translators Arvis Viguls (Latvia), Sonata Paliulytė (Lithuania), Ivan Štrpka (Slovakia), Petr Borkovec (Czech Republic) and young Portuguese poets from Porto Nuno Brito, Luís Filipe Cristóvão, Daniel Jonas, Jorge Melícias and Maria Sousa, a chance to work together for the first time.

The workshop is organised by Literature Across Frontiers in cooperation with Biblioteca Jose Regio, Vila do Conde, with the support of Books from Lithuania, Direccao Geral do Livro e das Bilbiotecas, Latvian Literature Centre, Slovak Centre for Information on Literature and Czech Ministry of Culture.