Our Offices & Partners Abroad

For detailed information please click on the offices and cultural centres below. For further information on the headquarters in Zurich please go to: www.prohelvetia.ch

Literature

Translation workshop (French/German) with Tess Lewis

Image credit: Cathy Mü, Unsplash

Tess Lewis has won various awards for her translations of works by Peter
Handke, Walter Benjamin, Philippe Jaccottet and others, including the
PEN Translation Prize for Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. She served as co-chair of the PEN Translation
Committee and is an editor for The Hudson Review as well as co-curator
of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s annual festival of German
language literature in English.

Tess has translated numerous Swiss authors and works in German, French & English. She will be providing two workshops on translation as part of the Swiss It! initiative presented by the Swiss network in India. 

Here are the Zoom registration links for the workshops:

French
Thursday 2 September 2021, 5:00-6:30 PM IST
https://bit.ly/3j0dhIv

German
Friday 3 September 2021, 5:00-6:30 PM IST
https://bit.ly/3xXfTLL

Open to language enthusiasts with minimum B1 level proficiency in the respective language.

Last date for registration is 1st September 2021, 6:00 PM IST.