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European Literature Night 2012

European Literature Night 2012

16 May 2012, 6.30pm | British Library
For one night, capital cities across Europe will present simultaneous celebrations of writing and reading on European Literature Night, and the British Library will once again host an engaging evening of readings from and conversations ...
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London Book Fair 2012

London Book Fair 2012

16 – 18 April 2012
This Spring the Hauptverband des Oesterreichischen Buchhandels (Association of Austrian Publishers) will exhibit at the London Book Fair 2012. Now in its 41st year the London Book Fair brings together a broad spectrum of the ...
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Engaging Encounters - Readings from Ernst Eisenmayer’s unpublished writings

Engaging Encounters - Readings from Ernst Eisenmayer’s unpublished writings

23 February 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Ernst Eisenmayer’s vivid writings offer a fascinating insight into the chance meetings and friendships forged during internment on the Isle of Man and his early years in London as an artist. The series of ...
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Jewish Book Week: Joseph Roth

Jewish Book Week: Joseph Roth

19 February 2012, 2.00pm | Kings Place
Together Dennis Marks and Michael Hoffmann discuss the life and literary work of Joseph Roth and offer their own views, research and observations of the Austrian writer’s career. In Wandering Jew: The Search for ...
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Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig

Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig. Oliver Matuschek in conversation with Professor Rüdiger Görner

28 November 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
My Three Lives was Stefan Zweig’s working title for his memoir The World of Yesterday. Matuschek uses the title here to reference the three major phases in Zweig’s life — his years of apprenticeship ...
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Eichmann’s Jews

Eichmann’s Jews. The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945

25 November – 2 January 2012
PUBLISHED AUGUST 2011 BY POLITY PRESS By Doron Rabinovici “A unique and candid account of the internal workings of the Jewish Community Vienna during the war. Doron Rabinovici has the courage and the gall to ...
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News

Opening of “Salzburg Literary Archives”

The “Salzburg Literary Archives” – a literary-historical research centre of the University, the City and the Land of Salzburg – were formally opened on 19 April 2012. They collect and investigate living and posthumous estates of authors, such as Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Gert Jonke and Stefan Zweig, with ties to Salzburg and make them available for academic research.

English PEN Launches Major New fund for Literary Translation

English PEN, the charity promoting the freedom to write, is launching a major new fund for literary translation. Click here to find out more!

Austrian government awards, grants and subsidies for translation

With a view to promoting (Austrian or foreign) translators or the translation of Austrian contemporary literature, subsidies, grants and awards are available from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.  Click here for more information.