KE Fellow awarded Literarisches Colloquium residency

Monday, January 20, 2014 - 09:30
Residents at the Literarisches Colloquim, for Vice Versa, January 2014

Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Professor Karen Leeder was chosen for the Vice Versa Translation Project in Berlin.

Poet Ulrike Almut Sandig and Professor Karen Leeder

Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Professor Karen Leeder was chosen for the Vice Versa Translation Project in Berlin. She was awarded a residency at the prestigious Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin (LCB) to work with poet Ulrike Almut Sandig. Suppported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the LCB hosts German and English language translators who work together intensively with chosen writers for a week. Professor Leeder will welcome Ms Sandig and other European poets to the Southbank Centre this Summer and Oxford this Autumn for a poetry reading evening and other events associated with her Knowledge Exchange project: Mediating Modern Poetry

Photo: Poet Ulrike Almut Sandig and Professor Karen Leeder.

Two Poems by Ulrike Almut Sandig, translated by Karen Leeder, in Modern Poetry in Translation.

Five Poems by Ulrike Almut Sandig published in Asymptote