British Centre for Literary Translation

The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is a research centre in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England. BCLT was founded in 1989 with a grant from the Arts Council by German writer and academic W. G. Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), who was Professor of European Literature at UEA.

BCLT offers a public programme supporting professional literary translators through its annual Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School, translator residencies, translation workshops, and a library devoted to international and translated literature housed at UEA.

BCLT co-sponsors the annual John Dryden Translation Competition, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and is a member of the RECIT network of European literary translation centres.