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Sample Translations

Writers in Translation dedicates small grants for a sample translation combined with a reader’s reportof work in foreign languages that has not yet come to the attention of the UK publishing scene.

We are delighted to offer these sample translations to publishers and hope that the work presented will generate interest among UK publishers who belong to our network and have a special focus on translated literature. For all other enquiries, please contact [email protected]

The copyright in these translations is retained by English PEN.

English PEN Sample Translations and Readers’ Reports

 Ipek Calislar: Latife Hanim – read the sample translation

Turkish, Biography

Ali al-Dumaini: Time for Prison, Times for Freedom
Arabic, fiction

Ak Welsapar: COBRA
Russian, fiction

Jiang Qisheng: My Life in Prison
Chinese, memoir

Jean-Louis N’Tadi: Le Chef d’…tat
French, play

Mamadali Mahmudov: Eternal Mountain
Uzbek, fiction

Philipp Manes: As if It Were Life
German, memoir

Omer Asan: Niko’s Kemence
Turkish, fiction

Originally posted with the url: www.englishpen.org/writersintranslation/sampletranslations/

Tuesday 24th
March 2009

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