Your application must be submitted by 1^st December 2026. No applications will be accepted after the closing date. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an online interview scheduled on 15 December 2026. They may be asked for additional materials before or after the interview.

New Europe College (NEC) is delighted to announce that on 13 October 2026 writer Yavuz Ekinci, currently a Fellow at NEC as part of the TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author Programme, was shortlisted for the Writing as Resistance Award/2026.

The Award is jointly presented by the prestigious PEN International and Fondazione Feltrinelli, and it supports writers who in their work demonstrate courage in championing civic engagement and solidarity in defending freedom and human rights against oppression.

New Europe College (NEC), the host of the Programme TANDEM, Author with Translator – Translator with Author, dedicated to writers, poets and translators from the countries bordering the Black Sea, is honoured to announce that the Programme will feature at the well-known FILIT (International Festival of Literature and Translation), Iași.

The tandem Yavuz Ekinci (writer, Turkey) – Natalia Talalai (translator, Ukraine) and translator Leyla Cheamil (Romania), herself a TANDEM Fellow, will participate in

The Library of New Europe College has recently received the second batch of a book donation which completes our “Marian Viorel Anăstăsoaie” Special Collection. The Collection now comprises around 590 volumes spanning both well-established and more innovative sub-fields of anthropology, from social and cultural to psychoanalytic and urban anthropology.

Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe: Phanariot and Post-Phanariot Networks and Regional Power Reconfigurations (1750s-1900s)
ANAMED, the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
on Monday and Tuesday, 26-27 October 2026, Istanbul

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a brief biographical note (150 words) to: mihaylova@cas.bg by 31 October 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-January 2027. 

The Iași International Festival of Literature and Translation FILIT (Romania), together with several cultural institutions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is organizing a series of conversations with experienced translators of Romanian and Moldovan literature into German.

Romanul „Abraxas” (Polirom, 2022), scris de Bogdan Alexandru-Stănescu și universul său fascinant vor fi în centrul unei noi ediții a seriei de întâlniri online „Traducători și scriitori în dialog”, programată pentru joi, 25 iunie, între orele 11:00 și 13:00.

The prize, awarded annually by the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation to a living author for their entire body of work, will be presented on 27 May 2026, at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw. The award marks the second major recognition of Blandiana’s poetry in Poland, following the 2016 European Poet of Freedom Award, granted by the city of Gdańsk for her poetry volume, My Homeland A4.