The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $275,000 in recommended grants to 20 translators to support the new translation of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from 11 different languages into English. You can find a complete list of recipients here.
"The NEA is committed to providing Americans with diverse art experiences," said chairman Jane Chu. "Our support of literary translation provides opportunities for readers to expand their knowledge of other cultures and traditions while also experiencing some of the world's most talented writers."
This year's projects are for translation from Albanian, Chinese, French, German, Danish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Yiddish. According to the NEA, "the review criteria for these projects consisted not only of the translators' skill, but also the importance of a particular work of international literature to English-speaking audiences, including those authors and languages which are often underrepresented."
