Links
Publications
- Swedish Book Review – published twice annually, SBR contains translated book extracts, independent reviews and articles
- Norvik Press – specialising in Scandinavian literature in English translation
Education and Training
- British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) – based at the University of East Anglia
- UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies
- University of Edinburgh Department of Scandinavian Studies
Sources of information about Swedish and Finland-Swedish literature
- Booktrust – Translated Fiction
- Embassy of Sweden in the UK
- Finnish Literature Information Centre (FILI)
- Nordic Network for Children's and Youth Culture
- Nordic Noir Book Club – an initiative of the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies
- Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
- Svensk Bokhandel – magazine of the Swedish book trade (in Swedish). Includes Swedish bestseller lists
- Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet)
- Swedish Book Review – searchable archive of reviews published since 2002
- Swedish Institute
- Swedish Publishers' Association
Sources of funding and support
- Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation – grants for translation and author visits to the UK
- Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators – an international residential centre in Visby on Gotland
- Creative Europe – the EU's support programme for the creative and cultural sectors from 2014
- Finnish Literature Information Centre (FILI) – grants for translation, printing and author visits to the UK
- PEN Translates – translation grants
- Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet) – grants for translation, literary events and visits to the Göteborg Book Fair
Literary Awards
- August Prize – awarded annually to the best Swedish book in each of three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children's/Young Adult
- Bernard Shaw Prize for Swedish Translation
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize – awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a living author, which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the UK
- Nobel Foundation – the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize
- Nordic Council Literature Prize – awarded for a work of imaginative literature written in one of the Nordic languages
- Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize – for book-length literary translations into English from any living European language
Other Organisations
- Chartered Institute of Linguists
- Institute of Translation & Interpreting
- Nordic Writers' Guild
- Swedish Translators in North America (STiNA) – an organisation for literary translators in the US & Canada
- Translators' Association – a subsidiary of the Society of Authors
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