"I've always wanted to start a conversation around translation, from the very beginning of my career."
Sunday Submissions: ‘ICM Global South Translation Fellowships’
"Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities welcomes applications from translators for a grant of up to $5000 to complete translations of works from the Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, etc) into English."
Sunday Submissions: ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Applications will be accepted through November 30, 2020.
R. B. Smith, Mai Lootah Win AATA Translation Awards
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic Translation has announced the two winners of their 2020 translation award.
Watch Now: ALTA Bilingual Reading Series
On October 6, the American Literary Translators Association held a bilingual reading series focused on Arabic, Turkish, and Persian texts.
‘Center for Greek and Arabic Literature and Culture’ Launches
The idea for the center was sparked by the Arab World Festival Corfu in 2011.
Sunday Submissions: The 2020-21 BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Competition
The first prize is £350, second prize is £200, third prize is £100, and other entries may receive commendations.
Arabic Events at American Literary Translators Association’s 2020 (Virtual) Conference
The complete 2020 schedule is now online. For this year's virtual event, there will be five types of events. These are: sessions, readings, workshops, special events, and -- for the first time this year -- caucuses.
Friday Finds: The Dialects of Oil & Rain
At the end of last month, three writers -- Mona Kareem, Deepak Unnikrishnan, and Krupa Ge -- talked about translation, transience, the Gulf, belonging, and more.
Shadow Heroes: Arabic Translation (and More) in the Classroom
"Translation is not a field of instant (or even delayed) validation. Mostly we do the work and leave it in the proverbial drawer for months or years, or we send it out into the world and hear nothing (or just murmurs) back. So classroom work offers a nice change."
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on Translating Mahmoud Darwish into Turkish
"For instance, the Palestinian society is more familiar with references to Christianity than the Turkish society. ... So while translating Darwish's works, I brought the references to verses from the Bible or the Torah to the attention of Turkish readers."
‘Inventing a Night Language’: On Translating the 1001
"I wanted to see if I could create a night-language, or find some form to reflect the fact that this is a night work...and the fact that these stories take place where dreams should be."
