The Young Baltic Translators' Workshop Karlskrona

From 8 to 11 October, with the support of the German Translators’ Fund (Deutscher Übersetzerfonds,https://www.uebersetzerfonds.de), we successfully ran a workshop for young / emerging translators from the Baltic Sea region at Folkhögskola Litorina in Karlskrona. The nine participants worked on newly produced translations in the language pairs German–Lithuanian, Swedish–Polish, Swedish–Russian, Swedish–German, German–English and German–Danish.

As a result of the workshop, new translations of works by Stig Dagerman, Max Fürst, Enel Melberg and Lida Starodubtseva can now be added to the Baltic Sea Library.

The collaboration with the Litorina proved to be a great success: a packed daily programme included not only the actual translation work but also public lectures on the joys and difficulties of translation (using Harry Martinson, the Swedish Nobel prize winner who stems from Blekinge, as an example), memories of the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, and a screening of "Seestück" (Seascape), a film by Volker Koepp.

A guided tour of the World Heritage Site of Karlskrona and the Litorina shipyard brought the programme of four intensive days to a close.