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Translation-related grants and awards
return to translators resourcesSome general sources of funding information we recommend:
- Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award
- Deadline: winner announced in July
- Amount: £5000 prize money for the author and £1000 for the translator.
- Contact: The Crime Writers' Association, email Margaret Murphy at info@theCWA.co.uk
- Description: Inaugurated in 2006, this award is for crime, thriller, suspense or spy fiction novels that have been translated into English from their original language, for UK publication.
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
- Deadline: winner announced in April/May
- Amount: £5,000 each to the translator and writer
- Contact: The Arts Council of England, email Jessica Ryan at jessica.ryan@artscouncil.org.uk
- Description: Aims to honour a great work of fiction by a living author that has been translated into English from any other language and published in the United Kingdom. Candidates should be submitted by the publishers.
- John Dryden Translation Competition
- Deadline: February
- Amount: £350
- Contact: The British Comparative Literature Association and British Centre for Literary Translation, email Dr Jean Boase-Beier at transcompe@uea.ac.uk
- Description: Prizes will be awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Literary translation includes poetry, prose or drama, from any period; entries may be up to 25 double-spaced pages in length. Winning entries will be published in full on the BCLA website and extracts from winning entries are eligible for publication in Comparative Critical Studies.
- American PEN Translation Fund Grant
- Deadline: Early 2012
- Amount: $2-3,000
- Contact: American PEN, applications can be submitted online.
- Description: One of the United States' most prominent literary translation prizes, to support translators as they complete unpublished translation projects.
- The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize
- Deadline: April 1, 2010
- Amount: $2,000
- Contact: awards@mla.org
- Description: This prize, administered by the Modern Language Association, is awarded to an already-published work: books which were published in 2009 will be considered for the 2010 prize. See their website for details.
- National Endowment for the Arts: Translation Projects
- Deadline: January 6, 2012
- Amount: Either $12,500 or $25,000
- Contact: Applications must be made online, through grants.gov.
- Description: The NEA grant is for an as-yet untranslated work, and is only awarded once every two years. Translators must have a total of 20 pages of previously published translations to their credit.
Comments
Dear all, I wonder if there are also any grants/awards for translations in foreign languages other than English (ie. French, Italian etc..), from Chinese of course:) Thanks, Ylenia
Ylenia, April 13, 11:18p.m.
Hi Ylenia,
I'm sure there are some such sources of funding available, but I'm afraid that I, for one, don't know much about them! At this point pretty much everyone here is working exclusively in the English language, and while I'd love to expand our scope to Chinese-to-XXX translation in general, that probably won't happen without a lot more people jumping on board...
The Chinese sources of funding -- the China Book International program, perhaps the Writers Association -- are available for all languages.
Sorry that wasn't more helpful...
Are you aware of grants (or a source where to find such) for subsidizing translations of novels from English into any of the European languages?
Rainer, March 25, 11:06a.m.
Translating from English? No, I personally don't know too much about funding in that direction. It seems like most countries' funding programs only provide money for translating their own literature into foreign language…
Sorry!
For translations into German, try the Deutscher Übersetzerfonds: http://www.uebersetzerfonds.de/stipendien/bin/stipendien.php
Charlotte, November 20, 9:35p.m.