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Grants &
Awards
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. 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prizes for the best unpublished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. 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.
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
NEW TRANSLATION PRIZE 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
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