In more good support-for-translation-in-the-US news, National Endowment for the Arts Announces $250,000 for 16 Literature Translation Fellowships, with 16 projects selected from 82 eligible applications.
Among the highlights: Angela Rodel is getting $25,000 in support of her translation of The Physics of Sorrow by Natural Novel-author Georgi Gospodinov [even if they don't spell the author's name correctly], a book I've mentioned before and which I'm very much looking forward to (it's forthcoming from Open Letter). It's also good to see there's a poetry collection by In the United States of Africa-author Abdourahman Waberi to look forward to. And the epic poem Insurgency by Nâzım Hikmet sounds good, too.
Finally, there's Christina E. Kramer getting a grant in support of translating "The Path of the Eels by Albanian writer Luan Starova"; I'm pleased to note that I first reviewed a book by Starova at the complete review in ... 2000.
Among the highlights: Angela Rodel is getting $25,000 in support of her translation of The Physics of Sorrow by Natural Novel-author Georgi Gospodinov [even if they don't spell the author's name correctly], a book I've mentioned before and which I'm very much looking forward to (it's forthcoming from Open Letter). It's also good to see there's a poetry collection by In the United States of Africa-author Abdourahman Waberi to look forward to. And the epic poem Insurgency by Nâzım Hikmet sounds good, too.
Finally, there's Christina E. Kramer getting a grant in support of translating "The Path of the Eels by Albanian writer Luan Starova"; I'm pleased to note that I first reviewed a book by Starova at the complete review in ... 2000.