Welcome to the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University

The Center for Literary Translation is a part of the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts. Through courses for MFA students and events each semester with distinguished writer-translators from around the world, the CLT seeks to increase awareness of the art of translation and how it enhances a writer's development and imagination.

Fall 2010 marks the second year of the CLT's joint concentration program, which offers MFA students the opportunity to pursue a joint course of study in both writing and translation, and to complete a thesis that includes both original writing and translations. The evolving curriculum for the joint concentration includes translation workshops, seminars, and master classes that explore the creative act of literary translation and its connection to creative writing.

The academic director of the CLT is writer and translator Michael Scammell, and the director is poet and translator Idra Novey.

CLT featured in the Columbia Record (Reprinted from Nov. 23, 2009 issue of The Record)

CLT on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show