Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is awarded annually to the best work of contemporary fiction in translation.
Literature policy
Our policy summarises the context for literature and the Arts Council’s role. It sets out our vision for literature and the priorities we have set to help us deliver it. Our ambition is to make it possible for more people to have access to high quality literature in a wide variety of forms.
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Literature initiatives
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is awarded annually to the best work of contemporary fiction in translation.
Literature is a constantly evolving artform. At its core is the book and the page, yet even the written word is in flux when we think of graphic novels, e-literature, hypertext, literature in performance and all the other variations on a theme that make literature so dynamic.
Our priorities for literature 2007–2011 are to support a more confident, diverse and innovative arts sector, which is valued by and in tune with the communities it serves:
- we will fund a portfolio of organisations that are contemporary in their approach and committed to engaging people in their work in new ways. We will continue to review the organisations we fund. We will prioritise those seeking to implement more sustainable business models and to develop partnerships that give their work greater impact and reach
- we will encourage and support new writing. We will help build the capacity of organisations directly involved in supporting writers. We will help create the time, space, money and networks that writers need. We will give emphasis to the dialogue between cultures brought about by literature in translation
- we will work with promoters and producers to support live literature and encourage opportunities for its distribution both as a live event and through digital distribution
