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authors remain untranslated into Finnish, the same air as the rest of Europe. Finnish
but this grant only pertains to contemporary audiences deserve opportunities to enjoy more
literature. We would encourage publishers to diverse programming. We hope that the World
apply with even more twenty-first-century on Stage grants will lead to presentations of
literature,” Hämäläinen says. how the challenges of our time are processed
dramatically in other cultures,” explains actor
The size of the grant is EUR 5,000–15,000 Timo Torikka, who was involved in developing
per work to be translated, for a sum total of the new grant.
EUR 1 million over ten years. The grant must
always lead to the publication of a printed book; The total funding for play translations and
audiobooks are an additional option for the performances between 2022 and 2029 will be
publishers to consider. EUR 1.2 million. “It is important for TINFO
that the funding is available to the entire field,
A new form of funding was made available to which means both institutional theatres and
theatres in Finland in August 2022. The aim of independent theatre companies. We are also
the World on Stage grants is to encourage Finnish pleased that the funding will allow for tours
theatres to have thirty new, contemporary plays so that performances can reach audiences in
from around the world translated into Finnish, various places,” says TINFO Director Linnea
and then to perform them. The funding is Stara.
coordinated by Theatre Info Finland (TINFO).
TINFO has put together a team of experts
“Currently, the Finnish theatre world is who will be tasked with reading contemporary
operating in a kind of vacuum concerning plays from as many different language regions
translated plays, which means we don’t breathe as possible to consider which ones could fit well
into today’s Finland. “We want to be involved in
creating a diverse theatre sector whose eyes are
open to the rest of the world during this time of
reconstruction.”
The next application round for the Translating
World Literature grants will be in March 2023,
and for the World on Stage grants in August 2023.
