American Literary Translators’ Mentorship Program Applications Are Open

Specific mentorships in Korean, Russian and Catalan as well as non-language-specific translator mentorships will begin in October at the association’s 40th anniversary conference.

Deadline for Application: May 31

The program, now in its third year, according to media materials, “is designed to facilitate and establish a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator.” A mentorship is expected to last one year and focus on a book-length project, beginning when the mentor and mentee have an initial meeting at ALTA’s 40th anniversary conference in Minneapolis (October 5-8).

A mentor and mentee’s work together will end with a reading during National Translation Month and magazine editors have agreed to review submissions directly from mentees at the end of their year of work, organizers say.

The award provides the mentorship to emerging translators free of charge, including travel to the ALTA conference.

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