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Sponsors
The supporting organization of the project is the European East-West Academy for Cultur and the Media
The project has been made possible with financial support from:
Robert Bosch Stiftung Goethe-Institut
The project is supported by:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Ballhaus Ost Der Deutsche Übersetzerfonds Deutsch-tschechischer Zukunftsfonds Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland Literarisches Colloquium Berlin Czech centre Berlin
Olaf Kühl
Olaf Kühl is a translator of Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Ukranian into German. He translated authors such as Witold Gombrowicz, Olga Tokarczuk, Andrzej Stasiuk, Jurij Andruchowytsch and Arkadi Babtschenko. His translations of Dorota Maslowska's work has been critically acclaimed as "congenial". Since 1996 he has been the special advisor for Russia to the Mayor of Berlin. In addition, he is a freelance translator and publicist, gives lectures and readings and leads literary translator workshops. In 2005, he was awarded the Karl-Dedecius-Prize and the German Youth Literature Prize.
