Donal McLaughlin

Hi there!

This Blog has been created to allow me to report day-by-day on a study trip to Berlin and Leipzig next week: Berlin, to attend an international meeting of translators of German literature at the LCB in Wannsee; Leipzig, to attend the latest Book Fair.

I look forward to meeting sixty fellow translators at the LCB on Sunday, and – from Tuesday – to joining a smaller group of nine or ten participants on the ‘Studienreise’, organised by the Goethe-Institut in North West Europe, to the Leipzig Book Fair.  I shall be representing Goethe-Institut Glasgow – and look forward to meeting colleagues from other regional institutes in Amsterdam, Dublin, Helsinki, London, Oslo and Stockholm.

WiFi and my eeePC permitting, I shall add a new Post late each evening – with my impressions of that day. These, no doubt, shall relate mainly to ‘literary’ matters – but this will also be my first visit to Leipzig since 1990. It will be interesting to see the difference 20 years have made. Berlin, I visit often – and can’t visit enough!

Right now, though, it’s back to the (Swiss) translations that have to be finalised before I go.

More next week!

Hope you enjoy following this -

Donal

(Photo: Marc Gaber, Riga)