In order to increase the knowledge of Swedish literature and the Swedish book market, the Swedish Arts Council, Kulturrådet, arrange a Fellowship programme taking place during the Gothenburg Book Fair in September. After two years in the digital world, they are now looking forward to arranging the Fellowship on site in Gothenburg, from 21-24 September 2022. The focus of this year’s Fellowship will be Fiction, so publishers and translators within this field are invited to apply.
Kulturrådet strive to create a programme that offers a wide range of aspects of Swedish literature and the Swedish book market. The programme is partly scheduled and partly open to individual meetings. Translators and publishers will get separate programmes, with occasional joint activities.
For publishers: The scheduled part includes meetings on themes and trends in contemporary Swedish literature, the Swedish book market, and Swedish literature from an international perspective. It also includes round table meetings with Swedish editors and other activities to enhance in-depth discussions as well as building relations between book professionals from all over the world.
For translators: The scheduled part includes meetings on different aspects of the Swedish language, discussions on translation related topics and a Q&A session on support for translators of Swedish literature.
The programme starts on Wednesday, the day before the book fair, and ends on Friday, the last of the professional days of the book fair. The hotel is booked from Wednesday to Saturday. All the lectures and meetings will be held in English, except for the translator events.
The grant will cover a part of your travel cost, three nights’ hotel accommodation, and entrance card to all seminars at the Gothenburg Book Fair. Depending on whether you live in Europe or outside Europe, two different travel sums will be granted. If you are travelling from Europe, the travel grant sum is SEK 3000, and if you are travelling from outside of Europe the sum is SEK 8000.
