Tag: Literary translation
Dutch Book Publisher VBK’s AI Translation Trial Sparks Debate
While VBK positions the initiative as an efficiency tool for unsold English rights, some industry professionals have expressed concerns about translation quality and work implications.
ALTA Announces 2024 National Translation Award Winners
The awards recognize excellence in literary translation, celebrating works in poetry and prose for their impact on English-language literature. This year's winners include Cole Swensen and Jamie Richards.
8 Literary Translation Awards You Should Know About
Beyond just poetry, several other types of literary translation awards are available in the English-speaking world. Here are eight awards available to literary translators working in a variety of languages.
Creative Europe to Support Projects to Boost Literary Translation in 2025
Creative Europe is set to support around 40 projects with a budget of €5 million for the translation, publication, distribution, and promotion of European literary works of fiction. Applications are open until 11 February 2025.
Upcoming Poetry Translation Awards
Several prestigious poetry translation awards recognize exceptional achievements in bringing international poetry to English-speaking audiences, including from the Academy of American Poets, the American Literary Translators Association, and PEN America. View the 2024 winners and learn how to submit.
Hailah Alkhalaf: Preserving Culture Through Translation
Through her work advancing the Saudi translation and publishing industries, Dr. Hailah Alkhalaf aims to share the country’s diverse cultural heritage with the world and help foster understanding between nations.
Literary Translation Awards Go to Translators of Arabic and Vietnamese Works
The American Literary Translators Association announced the winners of the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, recognizing translators “who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English.”
Literary Nobel Prize Spotlights Language Preservation
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to author Jon Fosse who uses Norway's minority written standard.
The number of Arabic literary works translated into English is rising fast
The number of Arabic-to-English literary translations published in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 2010 and 2020 rose by about 92% from the two decades prior, according to research recently presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair.