Grant holders

Looren Translation Grants 2018

Iannis Kalifatidis, Athens, Greece

Looren Translation Grants 2018

Regula Renschler-Grant

German, English > Greek

Iannis Kalifatidis translates from German and English into Greek, including works by Stefan Zweig, Georg Büchner, W.G. Sebald along with countless surtitles for German and English plays from William Shakespeare via Gerhard Hauptmann to Elfriede Jelinek and Christoph Marthaler. At Translation House Looren he is working on Friedrich Glauser’s novel Der Chinese, his second Glauser translation.

Betül Parlak, Istanbul, Turkey

Looren Translation Grants 2018

Italian > Turkish

Betül Parlak translates from Italian to Turkish, including books by Umberto Eco, Giorgio Agamben, Pierdomenico Baccalario and Antonio Tabucchi. At Translation House Looren she is working on Matvej Loewenthal’s La dodicesima nota.