Publishers, check this out! The Sheikh Zayed Book Award translation grant accepts applications all year round. Funding up to $19k is available to translate Arabic winning and shortlisted titles for children and adult fiction. Learn more:

Today, we're delighted to get to shout out the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for sponsoring the upcoming ALTA conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! We appreciate this sponsorship, which helps to make the conference possible. Thank you! www.zayedaward.ae/en/

We're glad today to get to shout out Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, who is a sponsor of our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! We're grateful for this sponsorship, which helps make the conference possible. ezratranslation.com

Explore the wastelands of the world through literature! These novels and memoirs transport you to barren lands with a fresh perspective. Including works by ALTA members Aron Aji, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Katie Whittemore, over at @electricliterature.com:

Check out this interview with former ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima as they discuss balancing professional translation projects with a broader love of and excitement for literature. At Hindustan Times: buff.ly/k0kVfZS @hindustan-times.bsky.social @yukitejima.bsky.social

The Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles is collaborating with @littranslate.bsky.social to host the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. Applications are open until Nov. 30 for one English-language translator of literature from Taiwan, who will undertake the mentorship in 2026.

Don't forget! Early-bird registration for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, closes in just ONE WEEK, on September 24. Register early and save $$ on your ticket to the largest conference in the US dedicated to literary translation! See rates and register here:

“Each act of translation performs a kind of alchemy on the translator, changing her way of seeing and thinking, opening new horizons...” 2025 ALTA Awards Judge Elizabeth Lowe shares her perspective on translation and the importance of it in troubling times at PELTA:

“It is part of an invitation to rethink what African literature is and where it comes from.” Tinashe Mushakavanhu writes about the African Language Literatures in Translation series by the University of Georgia Press. Read more at Morning Star:

📣 Meet the mentors for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! buff.ly/uQyIkTL The program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.

Congratulations to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, whose translation of Verdigris by Michele Mari has been shortlisted for the 2025 @littranslate.bsky.social Italian Prose in Translation Award! 🎉

Our colleague Alex Andriesse is on the shortlist of the Italian Prose in Translation for his work on Cristina Campo's The Unforgivable and Other Writings. Yay for Alex! And the other translators, original writers, books, and publishers. Thanks to @littranslate.bsky.social and the judges.

In case you missed it, ALTA member Anton Hur discussed his debut sci-fi novel TOWARD ETERNITY and what it’s like for a translator to be translated. Check it out at Yonhap News: buff.ly/UTh28dw

🎉 ALTA is delighted to announce the 2025 shortlists for the following prizes: 🏆ALTA First Translation Prize 🏆Italian Prose in Translation Award 🏆Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize 🏆Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award Congrats to all on these lists! buff.ly/tVFTq3h

Don't forget! Early-bird registration for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, closes in just TWO WEEKS, on September 24. Register early and save $$ on your ticket to the largest conference in the US dedicated to literary translation! See rates and register here:

“The anthology’s constellation of animals, children, misfits and survivors reshapes the image of Poland for the English reader...” Agnes Dudek interviews ALTA member Antonia Lloyd-Jones about her recent translation project, a collection of Polish short stories. At Culture Pi:

🎉 The 2025 longlist for the @nationalbook.bsky.social Award for Translated Literature has arrived! Congratulations to all on this stellar list - including ALTA members Shelley Fairweather-Vega, David McKay, Paige Aniyah Morris, and Robin Myers! www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

"No One Knows Their Blood Type," published by the CSU Poetry Center, has been long-listed for the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose from @littranslate.bsky.social 💫 literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

Honored to be selected & in cohort with these brilliant translators! See you in Tucson🖤📚

Such an honour! Tysm!

We at ALTA are excited to announce the 2025 ALTA Travel Fellows! buff.ly/4FBPAIE 📚 Catherine Xinxin Yu, 2025 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Chinese, Italian) 📚 Elete Nelson-Fearon (Arabic, Spanish) 📚 Mariana Ortigão (European Portuguese, Spanish) 📚 Marianna Suleymanova (Russian)

ALTA, in collaboration with the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in Tucson, AZ, is excited to announce the winner of the 5th annual Plays in Translation Contest! The winner of the 2025 competition is "The Precursors" by Luis Sorolla, translated from Spanish by Don Bogen. buff.ly/vvg1AXR

Delighted to be longlisted for the ALTA National Translation Award for Poetry! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

Congratulations to Daniel Owen trans. of DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna on being long listed for the The National Translation Award in Poetry! The shortlists for the NTA will be announced on Oct 9, and the winners on Nov 6 at ALTA's annual conference. @littranslate.bsky.social

Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

We're thrilled that Omar Khalifa's SAND-CATCHER has been longlisted for the @littranslate.bsky.social National Translation Award for Prose! Huge congratulations to Omar Khalifa and translator Barbara Romaine.

🎉 We are delighted to announce the longlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose! 2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose. View the lists here: buff.ly/PJoX7du

Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

Translators: run—don't walk— to apply. I was a mentee last year & it was fabulous. The mentors are extremely knowledgeable & generous, the mentees are inspiring, @kelsivanada.bsky.social runs the program like a symphony conductor, @littranslate.bsky.social is THE organization for translators. Apply!

To cap off Women in Translation month, these 7 recommendations from around the globe ask you to add a few more books to your TBR list. At Electric Lit, check out these fabulous translations, including one by ALTA member David McKay: electricliterature.com/7-books-from... @electricliterature.com

Proud to be a mentor for ALTA/SALT's 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program, for a translator of children's literature working from any South Asian language into English (based anywhere in the world). #xl8 #worldkidlit #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

In 1999, distinguished writers met on Lake Como to talk about translation. Last fall, a different group met there to discuss the same topic. At Lit Hub, check out the podcast THE CRITIC AND HER PUBLICS, feat. ALTA members Daisy Rockwell and Jeremy Tiang: buff.ly/33n4HGO @literaryhub.bsky.social

🎉 ALTA has been awarded a $5K Festival Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts to support Arizona Translates!, a series of events held by ALTA & local partners, aimed at bringing literature from around the world to the Tucson community! All events are free & open to the public, held Nov 5-8.

“The novels contain some of the funniest, strangest, most vital material of Solstad’s career.” At the LARB, David M. Smith delves into the works of Norwegian novelist Dag Solstad & the gaps made by the lack of English translations of his Maoist phase: buff.ly/pgjCGFs @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Happening next month! Check out this webinar hosted by the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), featuring @katedeimling.bsky.social: buff.ly/hJE2rxz

“No matter how dark the subject might be, his works evince a deep faith in humanity.” Former ALTA mentee Priyamvada Ramkumar shares the joys and complexities of translating Jeyamohan’s STORIES OF THE TRUE from Tamil into English. At Lit Hub: buff.ly/nBxnYQd

At the Indian Express, check out this list of five women who are redefining global literature with their translations, including ALTA members Daisy Rockwell and Jennifer Croft: indianexpress.com/article/book...

“The book is a close reading of literature, of memory, of how ‘facts’ and institutional knowledge are reified by systems of power.” Take a look at Annette LePique’s review of Neige Sinno’s memoir SAD TIGER, translated by Natasha Lehrer. At New City Lit: lit.newcity.com/2025/08/18/c...

Submissions are open for the 20th Sheikh Zayed Book Award! 📚 Authors, publishers & translators can enter 10 categories incl. Arab Culture in Other Languages, Translation, Editing of Arabic Manuscripts, Publishing & Tech, and Cultural Personality. www.zayedaward.ae/en/

At @wwborders.bsky.social, check out the July watchlist for literature in translation, featuring works translated by ALTA members Conor Bracken, Katie King, and Kathleen Maris Paltrineri:

Check out Marie Claire’s list of translations to cure your summer wanderlust, featuring translations by ALTA members Julia Sanches, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Heather Cleary:

“[He’s] a highly idiosyncratic writer, whose very name has become a byword for modern alienation & bureaucratic absurdity,” writes translator Mark Harman of Franz Kafka in this Lit Hub article on why the classic English translation of THE METAMORPHOSIS should have a change of title:

🎉 It's here! The schedule-at-a-glance for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will be held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ, is LIVE! Check it out now to see the panels, workshops, readings, events and more we have lined up for you in Tucson this November! buff.ly/6KmX2u2

Looking for your next summer read? Take a look at CLMP’s August reading list for Women in Translation Month, featuring books translated by several ALTA members, including a piece from ALTA Senior Program Director Kelsi Vanada!

Fed up with the exhausting process of finding the perfect publisher for your translation? At @wwborders.bsky.social, check out this tongue-in-cheek essay by translator from French Laura Vergnaud about the dos and don’ts of searching for a publisher: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

@vermontstudioctr.bsky.social and ALTA are excited to announce the winners of the 2026 ALTA fellowships at VSC! The winner of ALTA's BIPOC Fellowship is Suneela Mubayi & ALTA’s Mid-Career Fellowship is Mira Rosenthal. Congratulations to the winners! Learn more here: buff.ly/9mr05FW

“I've done almost every other kind of translation possible, but literature was out for me because of how much I love books,” Tejima says. “It was an untouchable thing. I was too scared to do it.” ICYMI: At The Japan Times, don't miss this feature on past ALTA mentee Yuki Tejima!

August is #WomenInTranslationMonth — and a great opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human talent in creating literary translation. Learn more — and browse a new reading list curated by PEN America’s Translation Committee — at: pen.org/women-in-tra...

It's the last day to get on the waitlist for the Bilingual Readings at ALTA48: Visions and Versions! This is your chance to share a translation with our supportive community. Our waitlistees help simplify the job of filling spots as they become available. Learn more & sign up today!