is an international residential centre for writers and literary translators, located in Visby on Gotland, Sweden. BCWT is a working and meeting place for literary professionals. The Centre has eleven studios/rooms and is open all year round. The Centre welcomes applicants from all countries - but priority of residence is given to literary professionals from the countries of the Baltic Sea region and the Nordic countries.
BCWT is funded by Swedish Arts Council and Region Gotland.

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General Assembly of the Baltic Writers' Council

The 2025 GA takes place at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, 25-26 April



The Baltic Writers’ Council represents 20 literary organizations, 11 countries and approximately 17.000 members around the Baltic Sea region and beyond.

For more information: www.balticwriterscouncil.info






Idag, på den Internationella Modersmålsdagen* lanseras Nordiskt nätverk för flerspråkighet

Nätverket stiftades den 21 januari under Nordiska PEN-mötet på BCWT.

*Dagen instiftades av Unesco 1999 för att främja språklig mångfald


Today, on the International Mother Language Day* a

Nordic Network for promotion of Multilingualism is launched!

The network was established 21 of January during the Nordic PEN meeting at BCWT.

*The purpose of the day is to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.

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20-21 januari står ÖFÖC/BCWT som värd för ett Nätverksmöte med nordiska PEN.

Mötet kommer bland annat att handla om situationen för modersmål och flerspråkighet i Norden, språkliga rättigheter i Sápmi – historia, samtid, framtid.

Tanken är också att under mötet bilda ett Språknätverk för de Nordiska PEN-medlemmarna.

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We are looking forward to hosting a network meeting with Nordic PEN-centres.
The meeting, which takes place at BCWT on 20-21 January, will focus on the situation of mother tongues and multilingualism in the Nordic countries, language rights in Sápmi - history, present, future.

The idea is also to form a language network for Nordic PEN members during the meeting.





January 22, 2025

Black Sea of Sunflowers:
Remembering Maksym Kryvtsov

A reading and conversation with translators Larissa Babij and Helena Kernan, right now working at the BCWT, supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union.


Read a portrait of Kryvtsov written by Larissa at theukrainians.org/spec/peopleofcultureeng/kryvtsov/


Welcome to

BCWT, Uddens gränd 3, Visby

January 22, 18.00


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Tuesday 26 November

Talk, Reading and Exhibition with and by Doris Kareva and Piia Ruber


The Estonian poet, translator and editor Doris Kareva presents her book newly published in Swedish translation and talks with her long-term creative associate the Estonian graphic designer Piia Ruber.

Place: Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Uddens gränd 3, Visby

Time: 18.00.
The doors’re open from 17.00. Exhibition and light refreshments

Free entré

In cooperation with Estonian Embassy in Sweden

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Boksamtal och utställning, tisdag 26 november




Samtal med de två estniska konstnärerna, poeten Doris Kareva och grafiska formgivaren Piia Ruber

Genom åren har Doris Kareva och Piia Ruber haft flera samarbetsprojekt.
Ett av samarbetena är boken Perekonnaalbum/Familjealbum som nu precis kommit ut i svensk översättning.

Kom och lyssna på ett samtal med Doris Kareva och Piia Ruber om mötet mellan konstarterna!
Och passa på att se Piia Rubers fotoutställning: Written in the Face som bl a ställts ut på Tallinn Art Hall

Programmet börjar 18.00
Utställningen är öppen från 17.00

Vi bjuder på förfriskningar och lättare förtäring

Uddens gränd 3. Visby
Fri entré

Varmt välkomna!

I samarbete med Estlands ambassad i Stockholm



80 years ago 80 years after

In cooperation with the Embassies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in Sweden Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators was a part of the events marking 80th anniversary of the Great Refugee Flight in 1944.









Photo: © Lena Pasternak
(Picture taken at Helgumannen on Fårö during an excursion with residents)

Annual Report 2023




General Assembly of the Baltic Writers' Council

The GA took place at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, 3 - 5 May




The Baltic Writers’ Council represents 20 literary organizations, 11 countries and approximately 17.000 members around the Baltic Sea region and beyond.

For more information: www.balticwriterscouncil.info






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