PEN Announces Translation Fund Grant Recipients

Yesterday, PEN America announced the recipients of PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants this cycle. The award, which bestows upon the recipients $3,670, provides translators with necessary funds to complete literary projects and publicly acknowledges completed works that merit publication. Congratulations to this year's recipients: Gabriel Amor, Ellen Cassedy, Chris Clarke, Sharon Dolin, Kaiama L. Glover, Anita Gopalan, Amanda Lee Koe, Karen Leeder, Rachel McNicholl, Alicia Maria Meier, Emma Ramadan, Corine Tachtiris, Russell Scott Valentino, and Jeffrey Zuckerman. More via PEN America's Press Room:

PEN America is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants. The Translation Fund, now celebrating its thirteenth year, received a large number of applications this year—171 total—spanning a wide array of languages of origin, genres, and eras. From this vast field of applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board—Esther Allen, Peter Blackstock, Sara Khalili, Tynan Kogane, Allison Markin Powell, Antonio Romani, Chip Rossetti, and Alex Zucker—has selected fourteen projects, spanning 9 different languages, including Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Hindi, Yiddish and more.

Each project will receive a grant of $3,670 to assist in their completion. More information on each of the fourteen grantees and brief excerpts of their translations can be found below. Longer excerpts of their grant-winning projects can be found in our 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Series.