Applications for the 2024/25 programme are now open.
ICI London is delighted to support this initiative by the National Centre of Writing (NCW) for emerging translators.
Founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010, NCW’s translation mentoring programme aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation.
National Centre for Writing (NCW) has announced the languages for its 2024/25 Emerging Translator Mentorships programme, including a new mentorship offer for applicants who identify as chronically ill and a mentorship for translators of Faroese into English. Now in its fifteenth year, the programme aims to develop successive new cohorts of literary translators into English, particularly for languages whose literature is currently under-represented in English translation.
The languages are:
• Arabic – mentored by Sawad Hussain
• Faroese – mentored by Marita Thomsen
• Italian – mentored by Elena Pala
• Japanese – mentored by Polly Barton
• Korean – mentored by Clare Richards
• Lithuanian – mentored by Kotryna Garanasvili
• Polish – mentored by Sean Gasper Bye
• Languages of Singapore – mentored by Jeremy Tiang
• Mentorship for a chronically ill Translator – mentored by Annie Rutherford
The programme is open to emerging translators at no cost to them. An emerging translator is someone who has published no more than one full-length work of literary translation. MFA and MA students in translation can apply, but priority may be given to those who do not have access to the kind of guidance already present in a translation degree programme.
Though English is the target language, the emerging translator need not live in the UK (apart from the mentorship for chronically ill translators).
Apply now!
The deadline for applications will be 11.59pm BST on Monday 26 August 2024.
To receive more information about the programme and know how to apply, please click on THIS LINK. Good Luck!
National Centre for Writing is a contemporary literature house in the heart of England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, committed to the transformative power of stories for personal, social, and community development.
Cover Image: Past year’s cohort of mentees and mentors. Credits: Andi Sapey for NCW.
