Grants & Awards
Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|July|Aug|Sep|Nov|Dec

Note: For complete details and the latest updates on the following awards, go directly to the award websites using the links provided.

January

PEN Translation Fund This year the newly inaugurated PEN Translation Fund will make several awards of between $2,000 and $10,000 to support the translation of works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, or drama currently unavailable in English.  Deadline is Jan. 15, 2004.


Modern Greek Studies Association is soliciting submissions for the Elizabeth Constantinides Translation Prize, awarded to a translation from the Modern Greek into English of a work of imaginative literature (novel, poem, play, or short story). Deadline Jan. 15, 2004.

Santa Fe Art Institute/Witter Bynner Foundation Poetry Translator Residency: The residency runs from May 30 through June 30 and can accommodate two translators for up to four weeks each. Each translator will receive roundtrip transportation, accommodations and work space, and a stipend. Open to both published and emerging poetry translators. Deadline Jan. 1.

BCLA/BCLT Translation Competition: The British Comparative Literature Association and The British Centre for Literary Translation (University of East Anglia) sponsor annual prizes for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Deadline Jan. 31.

The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature provides subsidies for non-Dutch publishers wishing to publish translations of Dutch or Frisian literature. Application forms are available on the Foundation website. There is no deadline, but applications must be made prior to publication.

February

The National Endowment for the Arts offers $10,000 or $20,000 grants to published translators of literature for projects that involve specific translations of prose or poetry from other languages into English. Applications for FY 2005 grants will be accepted between January 2, 2004 and February 2, 2004 for poetry projects only; the deadline for prose projects will be in February 2005.  Guidelines and application forms are available only on line at www.arts.gov.  For more information, call
202.682.5034

July

NEW TRANSLATION PRIZE
The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation is open to British residents aged 30 or under. Entrants are invited to translate a poem from any language, classical or modern. The closing date for entries is 16 July 2004. There are cash prizes (with a separate category for those who are 18 or under) and the best entries will be published in The Times and a commemorative booklet.  Download details and entry forms from www.stephen-spender.org   or write enclosing a SAE to the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust, 20 Kimbolton Road, Bedford, MK40 2NR.

 

August

The Robert Lowell Translation Prize is awarded by The Adirondack Review and Black Lawrence Press. Two prizes will be awarded annually, one for a translation of a French poem into English, and one for a translation of a German poem into English. Winners will be chosen by the Adirondack Review editorial staff.  Admissions accepted beginning Aug. 25, 2003, and close May 21, 2004.

http://www.blacklawrencepress.homestead.com/robertlowell.html

 

December

 

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