About the IVG

The IVG was founded in 1951 at the congress of the Féderation Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes in Florence (Italy) and can now look back on a 60-year history. Its membership has grown from an initial (1956) 192 from 23 countries to 1700 (as of 2000) members from 61 countries around the world.