BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking on 4^th February 2020 takes as its cue the most recent incarnation of the arch German prankster Tyll Ulenspiegel, who has been resurrected from the Middle Ages in the midst of the Thirty Years War in best-selling novelist Daniel Kehlmann’ s 2017 Tyll, now published in English in the translation by Ross Benjamin.

Karen Leeder appears on BBC Radio 3 The Verb with Ian Macmillan, Durs Grünbein, Nora Gomringer, and Ira Lightman discussing  German Poestry Thirty years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Translating Poetries: A Symposium for Translation Practitioners will gather 50 leading translation practitioners from around the world to discuss the practice of translating poetry. This two-day event will be hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre and SOAS University of London with support from Commonwealth Writers, Literature Across Frontiers and the National Centre for Writing. 

The aims of the symposium are: