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Grants and Awards
ALTA has compiled a list of grants and awards available for the literary translator. For your convenience, many times the the translation language has been listed next to the award or grant. If the the grant or award has a submission date, it has been included on our calendar, which is also a great place to find events or calls for submissions.
List of Grants and Awards in a searchable PDF.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work
Black Mountain Institute’s Rainmaker Translations
Fundação Biblioteca National: Brazilian Literature Translation Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Grants in Translation
Central and East European Book Project (CEEBP) Grant program
Centre National du Livre Residency Grants for Foreign Translators
Chapter One, Bronx Council on the Arts
DGLB Portuguese Translation Grant
The Donald Keene Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
Eesti Kultuurkapital Estonian Translation Grant
EÜK Straelen Prize for Translation
FILI Finnish Literature Translation Grant
Found in Translation Polish Book Institute
Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature Children’s Book Grant
Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature Translation Grant
Harvill Secker Young Translator’s Prize in association with Waterstone’s
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Grant
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
Ireland Literature Exchange Translation Grant Program
John Dryden Translation Competition
John Glassco Translation Prize
Jules Chametzky Prize in Literary Translation
The Kentucky Foundation for Women, Artist Enrichment Grant Program
Mira’s List of Grants and Awards (great resource)
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects
PEN’s Online Database of Grants and Awards ($12 yearly subscription fee)
Perewest Scholarship for German or Slavic Literary Translation
The Society of Authors Translation Prizes (Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish)
"Steps" Grants, the S. Fischer Foundation for translators of German literature
Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
Translation Program, the Polish Book Institute
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