May 2025
ENLIT joins key organisations representing the book sector in Europe – writers (EWC), translators (CETAL), publishers (FEP), booksellers (EIBF), librarians (EBLIDA), reading promotion (EURead) – calling on the European Commission to ensure that proper funding for book professionals and literature and reading promotion is maintained in the next Multiannual Financial Framework and, even better, increased.
May 2025
Prague Book Fair
ENLIT holds its annual spring meeting in Prague hosted by CzechLit and Czechia 2026 to mark the 30th anniversary of the fair and the upcoming Guest of Honour presence of Czechia at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026. Members attending the Pragude meeting take part in the Central and East European Book Market programme and attend the 2025 Award Ceremony of the European Union Prize for Literature which takes place at the fair.
March 2025
Bologna Book Fair
Board members Julià Florit and Alexandra Büchler present ENLIT and talk about translation and dissemination of books for children on a panel organised by European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL) at the Translators’ Cafe, with Francesca Novajra and Eva Valvo representing CEATL, and Franka Wijers, bookseller and member of RISE Bookselling Network. CEATL representatives highlighted the published report on the Strasbourg European Conference on Literary Translation.
October 2024
European Conference on Literary Translation
Ten ENLIT members were represented at this landmark event organised by CEATL (European network of literary translators’ associations) and held in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 2-4 October. Alexandra Büchler (Literature Across Frontiers) introduced ENLIT in a panel session on networks, while Sinéad MacAodha (Literature Ireland) moderated a session on translation data and statistics with Julià Florit (Institut Ramon Llull) and Martin Krafl (CzechLit) speaking. Julià Florit’s contribution presenting aggregated ENLIT members’ support for translation across Europe will be made available later with more complete data. Camilla Pargentino (Dutch Foundation for Literature) spoke in a workshop on translation subsidies. The conference was attended by more than 300 participants and viewed online by over 1500.
October 2024
Frankfurt Book Fair
ENLIT member organisations participated in this key book world event on 16-20 October with national stands and in the annual network meeting hosted by the fair. The network elected a new board member, Ilvi Liive-Roosipuu, after Niki Théron stepped down, and Alexandra Büchler was reelected for three more years.
The Malta Book Council was accepted as new network member.
May 2024
ENLIT network’s spring meeting takes place at the Thessaloniki Book Fair, hosted by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
March 2024
ENLIT network presents itself at the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair.
October 2023
The network meets at the Frankfurt Book Fair and a panel debate is held at the Aldus Stage.
December 2023
ENLit presents itself and its activities in two sessions at the Guadalajara Book Fair in December 2023.
June 2023
Lithuanian Culture Institute hosts the meeting of ENLit in June on the occasion of the city’s 700 anniversary celebrations. The members discuss plans for the Guadalajara Book Fair and continue debates in working groups.
October 2022
ENLit’s autumn meeting takes place at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
May 2022
ENLit spring meeting is held in Barcelona hosted by Institut Ramon Llull. The two-day meeting includes working groups discussing topics such as translation grants, book fairs, festivals and fellowships.
The Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors again after the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and ENLit resumes in-person meetings.
Headline photo credit: Frankfurt Book Fair / Nurettin Cicek