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2013 NEA Translation Fellowships

Following on yesterday’s announcement of the PEN/Heim Translation Grants the National Endowment for the Arts has announced the recipients of their Translation Grants: 16 translators working on projects from 13 languages and 15 countries. The full list is below [with some side comments], but I want to specially point ...

NEA's Writers' Corner

This is cool . . . The NEA recently posted this page featuring links to samples from all the recipients of this year’s Translation Fellowships. Here’s just a sampling of the samples: Esther Allen’s translation from Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto (Spanish): The governor remitted an incomprehensible ...

NEA Literature Translation Fellowships

The National Endowment for the Arts just announced this year’s recipients of their Literature Translation Fellowships, and wow is this a loaded group. It’s very exciting to see so many friends and colleagues on this list, and a lot of the projects sound really amazing . . . Below is the list of winners with ...

NEA Translation Fellowships

This morning the NEA announced the new round of Translation Fellowships, awarding these gifted translators $10-$20,000 for their projects. Complete descriptions of all the projects, along with translator bios, are available on the NEA site. Congratulations to everyone who received a fellowship—this is one of my favorite ...