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Literary translations publisher Dedalus has won back its funding from the Arts Council, reports the Guardian. Dedalus received a letter this week from Arts Council England, which said the publisher's regular funding status would be restored, and that it would receive a grant of £26,900 in 2010/2011 for "the commissioning and publishing costs of new literary fiction in translation and the origination of new English fiction".
Eric Lane, managing director, who led a high profile campaign against the original cuts made in 2008, said he was "prepared to put past disagreements behind us and have a constructive future with the Arts Council". Dedalus was part-funded by Taylor & Francis's Routledge when its Arts Council funding was cut, but this sponsorship deal came to an end in March.
Despite the good news, Dedalus, along with other Arts Council-backed publishers, continue to be threatened by cuts to the overall arts funding budget being imposed by the current Government. "We could be reinstated in July and booted out in October," warned Lane.