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2016 Lucien Stryk Shortlist: The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih, trans. by David Hinton

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By Wang An-Shih
Translated from the Chinese by David Hinton
(New Directions)

Meet the 2016 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentees!

  • French, Polish, Russian, and Singaporean mentorships
  • Book-length project to be completed during mentorship year
  • Projects to be presented at ALTA39: Translation & Crossings (October 6-9, 2016 in Oakland, CA)

Sabrina Jaszi (2016 ALTA Mentee)

Sabrina Jaszi  Sabrina Jaszi is a fiction writer and translator of Russian fiction and poetry, based in Illinois. She earned her M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida and also holds an M.S.

Natascha Bruce (2016 ALTA Mentee)


Noah Mintz (2016 ALTA Mentee)

Noah MintzNoah M. Mintz began translating at Vassar College, where he received his B.A. in Media Studies and French & Francophone Studies. During his third year there, he spent one semester living, studying, reading, and eating in France. Somewhere between Poughkeepsie and Paris, he caught the translation bug.

Eliza Rose (2016 ALTA Mentee)

Eliza Rose (1)Eliza Rose grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has recently made herself at home in the foothills of northeast Los Angeles.

Meet the 2015 ALTA Fellows!

The American Literary Translators Association is pleased to announce the five 2015 ALTA Travel Fellows. Each year, ALTA provides four to six $1000 fellowships to emerging translators to attend the annual ALTA conference. This year ALTA received over 140 applications for these fellowships, making this year the most competitive fellowship selection by far. This year’s winners were selected by award-winning translators Geoffrey Brock and Jennifer Croft, and editor and translator Sidney Wade.

Canaan Morse (2015 ALTA Travel Fellow)

MorseCanaan Morse is a translator, editor, and poet based in Boston. His translations of Chinese fiction and poetry have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Chinese Literature Today, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Asymptote, and other places.

Christiana Hills (2015 ALTA Travel Fellow)

2015-08-13 18.53.14 (2)Christiana Hills is currently in her second year of the PhD program in Translation Studies at Binghamton University. She also holds a BA in French and English from Alma College in Michigan and an MA in Literary Translation (French-English) from NYU.

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