Sunday Submissions: BU MFA in Literary Translation
The new one-year MFA is open for applications and has language tracks available in Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, Persian, and Spanish.
On Translation
Sunday Submissions: ‘Two Lines’ Looking for Arabic Poetry in Translation
The deadline is November 18, 2019.
Sunday Submissions: World Literature Today Student Translation Prize
“One student translator will win a $200 award for best prose translation; one student translator will win a $200 award for best poetry translation.”
Free Online Arabic-poetry Translation Workshop
The magazine Modern Poetry in Translation has launched an online translation workshop focused on Adil Latefi’s poem “Debate.”
Sunday Submissions: Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
The prize is open for submissions until January 31, 2020.
Khalifa’s ‘Death Is Hard Work,’ Tr. Price, Makes National Book Award Longlist
Today, The New Yorker announced the ten-book longlist for the “Translated Literature” category of the 2019 National Book Award.
Mada Masr Launches New Translation Feature: ‘In Other Words’
“We hope to create more space for diverse voices from the region to be heard elsewhere, not for what they “represent,” but for the unique, singular vision each of them provides.”
Sunday Submissions: Asymptote’s Special Feature on International Microfiction
They are, they write, “looking for the best unpublished translations (into English) under 1,000 words.”
7 Finalists for the 2019 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
The finalists include two novels translated from Arabic.