Check out literary events at our partner institutions:

For three years, FNL has been bringing six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors to New York, where they join well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings.
Stay tuned for the fourth edition of FNL from February 21 – 24, 2013.

Festival Neue Literatur (FNL)

"2013 Reader"

Young and up-and-coming publishing professionals meet and discuss translated literature at Monthly Book Club Meetings and other Publishing the World activities.


Publishing The World

Visit us on Facebook to read about our monthly book picks and for your chance to win a free copy of the English translation.

The Geisteswissenschaften International - Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences is awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - German Publishers & Booksellers Association, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, VG WORT and Germany's Federal Foreign Office to innovate original German-language works for humanities and social sciences. The GBO promotes all titles that receive this award and for which English language rights are still available.
Spring Nonfiction 2012

The GBO works closely with the Frankfurt Book Fair in promoting children's and YA books from Germany and puts together a children's books rights list.
Rights list children books 2012

The GBO also helps US publishers in getting information about available rights and recommending suitable readers or translators.

The German Book Office and the Frankfurt Book Fair both maintain translator databases to facilitate the quick and easy finding of suitable translators.
If you regularly do translation work form German into English and would like to be considered for inclusion in the database, please send your CV and a sample translation (if possible, and preferably with a copy of the original text) to post@newyork.gbo.org
Upcoming events: Translator Workshop this Fall. More information to come.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the translator database or the German Book Office.

US publishers are encouraged to submit their applications to the Goethe-Institut New York.
If an application is accepted, the Goethe-Institut New York will forward it, together with a supporting statement, to the central office of the Goethe-Institut in Munich. There, a committee will evaluate the application. If an application is approved, the committee will decide on the amount to be granted. If an application is rejected, the Goethe-Institut New York will inform applicants directly.

Please submit completed applications and supporting documents to: Goethe-Institut New York
Brigitte Doellgast
72 Spring Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone: +1 212 439 8695
Fax: +1 212 439 8705
E-mail: doellgast@newyork.goethe.org
www.goethe.de/newyork

Translation funding for nonfiction works on humanities and social sciences from Germany is available through a new grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, and German Federal Foreign Office. Geisteswissenschaften International: Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany rewards innovative academic works on humanities and social sciences written in German by providing funding for the translation of such works into English.

Applications will be accepted from publishing companies with academic publications in the fields of humanities and social sciences. They should submit their own selection of titles for which a rights option agreement is already in place, and provide a brief summary of the reasons for their selection. The amount of funding will depend on each individual case and the actual translation costs. The titles to receive funding will be chosen twice a year by an independent selection panel made up of academics, qualified journalists and scientific publishers.
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Send your correspondence to:
Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
Anke Simon
Phone:  +49 (0) 69 1306-384
E-mail: simon@boev.de

Funding for nonfiction titles by German authors is available through the Goethe-Institut Translation Grant. Please visit the website of the Goethe Institut for more information.
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The Arts and Culture Department of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education offers translation funding for contemporary works of poetry, prose, drama, and essays to publishers and translators.

Send applications to:

Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur
(BMUKK), Sektion VI – Kunstangelegenheit
Abteilung VI/5 (Literatur- und Verlagswesen)
Minoritenplatz 5,
A-1014 Vienna
Austria

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The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia provides assistance to foreign publishers for the translation of literary works by Swiss authors for publication abroad.
Contribution to Publications

Send applications to:
Pro Helvetia
Schweizer Kulturstiftung

Schweizer Kulturstiftung
Hirschengraben 22
CH-8024 Zürich
:  +41 44 267 71 71
Fax:  +41 44 267 71 06
E-mail: info@prohelvetia.ch
www.prohelvetia.ch

The New York State Council on the Arts offers funding literary translations into English based on the accuracy of the translation and the literary quality of the original work. Grants range from $2,500 to $5,000 and the request for funding must be sponsored by a nonprofit organization. The registration deadline is March 1st and the application deadline is July 3rd. Visit the NYSCA website for complete details:
NYSCA Site

The PEN Translation Fund offers grants from $2,000 to $10,000 for the translation of literary works from a variety of languages into English and proposals are judged on the quality of the original work and of the translation. For more information or to download an application form, visit the PEN website:
To the PEN site