Sunday Submissions: ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
Applications will be accepted through November 30, 2020.
American Literary Translators Association
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.
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.
Two Books Translated from Arabic Make 2020 NTA Prose Longlist
Yesterday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the longlists for the 2020 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. Two works translated from Arabic — a novel and a collection of interlinked short stories — made the twelve-book longlist for prose.