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The second Nordic Translation Conference will take place Thursday 4 - Saturday 6 April 2013 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, as part of the university's 50th anniversary celebrations. The keynote speakers are Andrew Chesterman, Riitta Oittinen, Ástráður Eysteinsson, and Anna Mauranen.

The fifth Postgraduate Translation Symposium at the University of East Anglia aims to examine translation as a form of literature in its own right. The symposium aims to explore the following questions: what are the effects of cultural contexts, literary systems and philosophical and ideological cues on the appreciation of translated literature? What are the power structures and hierarchies that translated literature must negotiate in order to achieve acceptance? What are the benefits to a...

Location : White Lion Cafe (NR2 1PX) Date : 19 Nov 2012 – 15 May 2013, 2pm Contact : BJ Epstein A free series of lunchtime workshops in Norwich city centre. Download full details on the series .

UEA alumna Anna Selby has been shortlisted for the h.Club100 award, jointly sponsored by Time Out magazine and the Hospital Club to discover the most innovative and influential people in the British creative industries. She is nominated in the Publishing and Writing category alongside novelist Zadie Smith, Granta editor Ellah Alfrey and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, among others. Anna (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing (Poetry) MA in 2005, and last year organised the UK’s...

UEA graduate Christie Watson has been announced as winner of the ‘Creative’ category of Red magazine’s ‘Red’s Hot Women Awards’, which celebrate the achivements of women from a range of careers. The winners will be featured in the January 2013 issue of Red. Christie (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2008 and published her first novel ‘Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away’ with Quercus in 2011. Before joining UEA, where she was the recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary, she...

UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature Amit Chaudhuri has won the 2012 Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies. The jury for the £30,000 pound award includes Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Harvard professor Homi Bhabha, Columbia professors Akeel Bilgrami and Sheldon Pollock, and Leila Seth, India's first female high court chief justice. The Infosys Prizes were instituted in 2008, and this is the first to given in Literary Studies. Amit (pictured)...

'Night Journey' is the first full-length collection of poetry from UEA alumnus Richard Lambert and has just been published by Eyewear. Richard (pictured) has a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Bristol and completed the MA in Prose Fiction at UEA in 2010, when he graduated with Distinction. His poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and collected in the Bloodaxe anthology ‘The Poetry Cure’. In 2008, his pamphlet ‘The Magnolia’ was published by Rialto, and in 2010...

Jane Willis, a graduate of the first UEA Life Writing MA course in 2001, has been announced as the winner of this year’s £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize for ‘Marguerite, Byron and the Literary Factory’. The prize is given for the best proposal by an uncommissioned, first-time biographer, and was presented at a dinner at the Savile Club in London this week. Read more .