Sunday Submissions: Translator-in-residence at University of Iowa
Past recipients include Deborah Smith, Jennifer Croft, and Katherine Silver. More about how to apply at the University of Iowa website.
On Translation
Books by Aziz BineBine, Najwa Binshatwan, and Najwan Darwish Win ‘PEN Translates’ Awards
This marks the largest number of books PEN Translates has selected in a single year.
Sunday Submissions: Arabic-English Translation Workshop, Sharjah
Applications must be received before December 12, 2019; they must “answer the application questions, provide an up-to-date CV and an extract of a recent translation (up to 1000 words).”
4-Book Shortlist for 2019 Banipal Translation Prize Announced
The £3,000 award is given annually for works “of imaginative and creative writing of literary merit and general interest.”
Sunday Submissions: Triple Canopy Seeking ‘Fictions of Nationalism’
“Each commission recipient will receive: a $2,000 honorarium; eight to twelve months of artistic, editorial, and technical support; the possibility of using Triple Canopy’s Manhattan office and venue for an event devoted or related to the work; and archiving of the project by Triple Canopy in partnership with NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections.”
Friday Finds: Poet Golan Haji in Four Languages
You thinned your pain. / Tu as poli ta douleur. / Du hast deinen Schmerz verschmälert.
Sunday Submissions: Copper Canyon Accepting Translated Poetry Manuscripts
Submissions close December 1, 2019.
Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’
To celebrate, the CTS is launching an anthology of essays built around lectures delivered at the center over the past ten years, titled In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, edited by Samia Mehrez.
Sunday Submissions: ‘Shenandoah’ Seeks Translations
Shenandoah: “We pay our contributors at the rate of $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.”