There's translation support and there's translation support: Geisteswissenschaften International -- 'Translation Funding for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences' -- certainly lends a nice hand in supporting the translation of German non-fiction (sigh) into English: they've just announced thirteen projects that will receive support to the tune of €200,000.
That works out to an average of almost US$21,000 per work -- the kind of cash any publisher of fiction-in-translation would kill for (or do almost anything just short of that, anyway).
Yes, more-or-less-academic non-fiction is a different beast, but still ... wow !
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