Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators 2025-2026 (stipend of EUR 3,300)

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Applications are open for the Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators 2025-2026. The goal of the Paul Celan Fellowship Program is to beat deficits and asymmetries within the change of concepts and the reception of scholarly literature that end result from the division of Europe within the twentieth century.

Therefore, this system helps translations of canonical texts in addition to modern key works within the humanities, social sciences, and cultural research from Eastern to Western, Western to Eastern, or between two Eastern European languages. Special emphasis is placed on translations of related works written by East European authors and/or by feminine students. A thematic relation to at least one of the analysis fields of the IWM is likewise welcomed.

Fellowship

• Fellows obtain a month-to-month stipend within the quantity of EUR 3,300 to cowl all bills associated to their keep in Vienna. In addition, the IWM gives the fellows with an workplace together with entry to web, in-house analysis and administrative amenities, in addition to different providers free of cost. Generally, fellowships begin on the primary day of the month and finish on the final day of the month.

Eligibility

• Open to European translators.
• Note that fiction and poetry is not going to be accepted.
• All utility supplies needs to be in English.

Application

Application supplies consist of the next:

• a quick letter of motivation that addresses how the challenge would profit from time on the IWM, the connection to the IWM’s mission and analysis, and concrete analysis/writing objectives through the fellowship
• a challenge description (max. 550 characters)
• a challenge proposal (max. 6.000 characters incl. areas) 
• a curriculum vitae with a bibliography of translations and different related publications
• a contract or a letter of intent from a writer
• proof that the translator/writer holds the rights to the interpretation and its publication (or has an possibility on them)

All utility supplies needs to be in English.

Important! Attached paperwork have to be mixed right into a single PDF, as the net submission kind solely permits for one attachment. File names of attachments should use Latin characters.

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For extra info, go to Paul Celan Fellowship for Translators.