Translations from French and Italian, by Cole Swenson and Jamie Richards respectively, win ALTA’s 2024 National Translation Awards.
Translation: ALTA Announces Its 2024 Shortlists in Prose and Poetry
The ALTA National Translation Awards have six shortlisted titles in prose and poetry each. Winners are to be announced on October 26.
Longlisted Translations From 17 Languages: ALTA’s Awards Program
There are 21 publishers with work represented in the 2024 edition of the American Literary Translators Association awards.
Words Without Borders’ New Executive Director: ALTA’s Elisabeth Jaquette
Following the 11-year tenure of Karen M. Phillips, a translator of Arabic, ALTA’s Elisabeth Jaquette, is the next to helm Words Without Borders.
The United States’ ALTA National Translation Awards’ 2023 Winners
The 25th edition of the US National Translation Awards featured works translated to English from Arabic and Vietnamese.
2023 Longlists Named by American Literary Translators Association
Ahead of its first fully-physical conference since 2019, the American Literary Translators Association announces its longlists.
International Booker Juror Calls for Royalties for Translators
The Booker Foundation and translators Frank Wynne and Jennifer Croft speak out on obstacles faced by many literary translators.
ALTA’s US National Translation Award Winners
Tejaswini Niranjana, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Curzio Malaparte, and Archana Venkatesan win this year’s ALTA’s National Translation Awards.
ALTA’s 2021 National Translation Awards: Shortlists in Prose and Poetry
ALTA has shortlisted work translated from Spanish, French, Arabic, Kannada, Bengali, Chinese, Italian, Croatian, Tamazight, and Korean.
ALTA Names Its 2020 National Translation Awards Shortlists
The National Translation Awards shortlists include work from Italian, Russian, Chinese, Greek, Korean, Spanish, and Malay.