ALTA fellow

ALTA fellow

ALTA TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED!
– $1,000 to emerging translators working from
– Fellows reading at ALTA39: Translation & Crossings (October 6-9, 2016 in Oakland, CA)

Kelsi Vanada, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Spanish)kelsi-vanada-headshot

Haider Shahbaz, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Urdu)haider-shahbaz

Nicholas Glastonbury, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Turkish)nicholas_glastonbury

Monika Cassel, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (German)monika-cassell

Bruna Dantas Lobato, 2016 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Brazilian bruna-dantas-lobato_photoPortuguese)

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.

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.

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.

annegreeott_300dpi_allcorrectAnne grew up near Hood Canal and the Olympic Mountains in the Pacific Northwest.

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