EWC, founded in 1977 in Germany and newly constituted in 2006 in Brussels as an international non-profit organisation, the European Writers’ Council is the federation of 50 European national organisations of professional writers and literary translators in all genres in 34 countries, writing altogether in 42 languages. EWC’s members represent 433,000 individual creators, including more than 160,000 authors in the text-sector.