Promotion of Literature in Translation Internship - Armenia and Georgia
18-25 June 2014 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Participants
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Irine Tchogoshvili (Georgia) is Project Manager at Program in
Support of Georgian Book and Literature at the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia
- Lianna Aghamyan (Armenia) is Program Assistant at Armenian Literature Foundation
Host organization
The selected participants were kindly hosted by the Dutch Foundation for
Literature. The Dutch Foundation for Literature has the task of supporting writers and translators, and of promoting Dutch literature abroad. It
invests in the quality and diversity of literature through grants for writers, translators, publishers and festivals, and contributes to the production and distribution of Dutch and Frisian
literature at home and abroad. With the support of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, it aims to promote a thriving literary climate, embedded in literary history and attuned to
the latest developments in the publishing industry.
In the past two decades, Dutch literature and the Dutch book have featured as the focal theme of organized literary events at many international bookfairs,
such as those in Frankfurt (1993), Barcelona (1995), Gothenburg (1997), London (1999), Tokyo (2000), Turin (2001), Paris (2003) and Beijing (2011).
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