Arts funding and residencies
Discipline: Literature
The Goethe-Institut promotes art and culture in a variety of projects in Germany and abroad. You can search by genre, funding type and duration.
Discipline: Literature
The Goethe-Institut promotes art and culture in a variety of projects in Germany and abroad. You can search by genre, funding type and duration.
Litrix.de presents selected new books in German. The programme offers translation grants within the context of the selected focus language for a given period. Current special focus: 2022–2024 Italian.
For 50 years, the Goethe-Institut has been providing grants for translations of current German-language books in fiction, poetry, children's and youth books, non-fiction and graphic novels.
The Goethe-Institut is a partner of Traduki, an European network for literature. With books, translations, festivals, workshops and residency programmes for authors and translators, it promotes exchange between the 14 participating countries.
The Goethe-Institut cooperates in the field of translation funding with Litprom, a contact point for the promotion of translations for fictional works from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Arabic World and Turkey to the German-speaking market.
Book presentations for the English-speaking world: The project selects promising titles for translation into English from the abundance of new German-language publications.
Please contact one of the worldwide branches of the Goethe-Institut abroad with all questions concerning local or regional projects.
Head of Division Literature and Translation Grant Programme
Translation Grant Programme