Ahead of its first fully-physical conference since 2019, the American Literary Translators Association announces its longlists.
ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners
Tejaswini Niranjana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Curzio Malaparte, and Archana Venkatesan win this year’s ALTA’s National Translation Awards.
ALTA’s 2021 National Translation Awards: Shortlists in Prose and Poetry
ALTA has shortlisted work translated from Spanish, French, Arabic, Kannada, Bengali, Chinese, Italian, Croatian, Tamazight, and Korean.
US National Endowment for the Arts: $1.2 Million in Translation, Creative Writing Fellowships
In the US, the National Endowment for the Arts today announces the recipients of its 2020 translation and creativing writing grants totaling $1.2 million.
Words Without Borders April: To Read ‘Within a Tradition’
For this month’s edition of ‘Words Without Borders,’ guest editor Lina Meruane gives us a framework for Chilean work, editor Eric Becker talks process.
ALTA’s National Translation Award Longlists Feature 13 Languages
Both prose and poetry feature on the National Translation Awards longlist, in which the translations are evaluated by comparing them with the original text.