The team of the International Book Arsenal Festival joined the CELA European project for the first time in 2024. CELA: Connecting Emerging Literary Artists is networking of emerging literary artists that involves young writers and translators from 11 European countries in cooperation through mentoring, masterclasses and meetings.
CELA events within the 13th Book Arsenal:
- 30 May, 11:30 (Workshop Area)
Pitching of translations by CELA project participants. Moderated by Oksana Ziobro.
Translators who have translated excerpts of texts into Ukrainian as part of the CELA project will pitch them to Ukrainian publishers. - 31 May, 12:00 (Lecture Hall)
Translator’s dialogue: beginners and professionals. Differences in experience, challenges, fears, achievements, and tools. Participants: Alla Tatarenko, Mariana Klymets, Yuliia Stakhivska, Oleksandra Laktionova. Moderated by Oksana Ziobro.
A conversation with the translators and mentors of the CELA project about their experience, challenges, fears, achievements, and tools in translation.
- 31 May, 13:00 (Lecture Hall)
Workshop for emerging translators “How to get a publisher interested?” Speakers: Oksana Ziobro, Maximu Andre Martynenko Shchehlov.
A workshop by Oksana Ziobro, a literary consultant at the CELA project in Ukraine, on how young translators can find a publisher.
- 31 May, 14:30 (Author Stage)
Networking for emerging writers: readings of translations by CELA project participants. Participants: Magdalena Sodomkova (Czech Republic), Julia Lukovniak (Slovenia), Olga Futoran, Yuliia Stankevych.
This is a reading of Ukrainian translations of excerpts from texts by Magdalena Sodomkova (Czech Republic) and Julia Lukovniak (Slovenia), with the participation of the authors and their translators.
See you at the 13th International Book Arsenal Festival!
The CELA project is a training program for translators and a joint international experience with colleagues, also translators, from 11 European participating countries. One of the important components of this extensive process is the support from mentors in the professional development throughout the whole duration of the project.
Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA) is an international project of cooperation and development of literary talents, promotion and distribution of literary works, involving 12 literary organizations from 11 countries of the world. And this is already the third iteration of CELA. In 2024, the team of the International Book Arsenal Festival joined this large-scale European project for the first time. It is designed for four years, more details can be found here.
The CELA project is funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the funding body can be held responsible for them.