World Authors
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Translated Stories, Translated Worlds: round-table discussion
Find out about the Man Booker International Prize and life as a translator The Storey Institute, Lancaster 22 March 2017, 19:00-22:00 What does it take to become a literary translator? […]
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How to read the real Elena Ferrante
Do novels need authors? A storm broke out this week around journalist Claudio Gatti’s decision to reveal the true identity of popular Italian novelist […]
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Multiple Award-Winning German Author Ulrike Draesner joins ‘Authors & the World’ research hub as 2015-16 Writer-in-Residence
Authors & the World is delighted to announce its writer-in-residence for 2015-16. Ulrike Draesner has won multiple awards across German-speaking Europe for her poetry and prose writing, and was long-listed for the German […]
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Conference Report: World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of Capital 2 July – 3 July 2015
By Anna-Katharina Krüger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München The first conference day started early in the morning, after a wonderful breakfast during which I already had the chance to meet some of the speakers […]
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Blog: Jessica Goodman reflects on ‘The Point of View of Posterity’
‘Let posterity be your only point of view.’ La Mettrie, French materialist philosopher, 1750 In eighteenth-century France, posterity was a topic that occupied the thoughts of a great number of […]
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Blog: Allyson Fiddler reflects on multilingual authorship
I’m very excited to be representing the Authors and the World research hub at this year’s Austrian Studies Association conference at the University of Michigan (Dearborn) next week (26-28 March). […]
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News: Authors and the World in London
On Friday 5 December, Authors & the World is having its first event outside Lancaster. Rebecca Braun, Emily Spiers and guest-member Sally-Ann Spencer will be working with a mixed cohort […]
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What is the role of the public intellectual and critical authority?
Professor Timothy Brennan works on the relationship between comparative literature, world literature, and global English at the University of Minnesota. He spoke at our November 2014 conference on ‘Literary Authority in […]
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World Authors and Translators in the Global Circulation of Capital
2 & 3 July 2015 You can read the conference report on this event HERE. Watch the video of Rebecca Braun’s introductory talk opening discussions at our latest conference ‘World Authors […]
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