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[1] by German writer and academic W. G. Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), who was Professor of European Literature at UEA.
The inaugural lecture was given by George Steiner on 26 April 1994 at UEA's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
[4] Renamed the Sebald Lecture in 2003 to honour BCLT's founder, the lecture continues to be given annually by a prominent cultural figure, on an aspect of literary translation.
Previous speakers have included Margaret Atwood, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Carlos Fuentes, Seamus Heaney, Arundhati Roy, and Susan Sontag.