DCC Summer School of Literary Translation

The Summer School of Literary Translation will focus on the topic Vertalen en/als adaptatie ("Translation and/or Adaptation"). The topic will be explored through five lecture and workshop sessions. Participants will also work on the translation of an excerpt from the play Wunderbaum speelt live – Online gaat het mis by the Flemish renowned author Annelies Verbeke, who will join us online for an author reading and a discussion of the translation challenges presented by the text. In addition to this play, participants will have the opportunity to translate a variety of literary genres, including poetry, short fiction, and fairy tales, allowing them to explore different approaches to literary translation and adaptation.

The Summer School brings together forty students working with Dutch in combination with Serbian/Croatian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak/Czech, and Romanian.

The Summer School will conclude with a symposium at which participants, working in their respective language groups, will present the translations they have produced and reflect on the translation challenges they encountered throughout the programme.

Participating institutions: Univerzita v Bělehradě, Univerzita ve Wroclawi, ELTE Budapešť, Univerzita v Bukurešti, Univerzita v Zagrebu, AMU Poznań, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Komenského univerzita v Bratislavě, Univerzita Debrecen, Univerzita Karlova v Praze