CFA: National Centre for Writing - Emerging Translator Mentorships

Deadline: August 31, 2021

Dear Fellow Translators,

Many/most of you will have graduated beyond the stage of "emerging", but you may nonetheless be interested to know that the Emerging Translator Mentorships hosted by NCW are now open for applications until 31 August, midnight.

This year's mentorships are:

• Italian (mentored by Howard Curtis)
• Japanese (mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
• Korean (mentored by Anton Hur)
• Latvian (mentored by Kaija Straumanis)
• Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson)
• Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
• Russian (mentored by Oliver Ready)
• Swiss German (mentored by Jamie Lee Searle)
• 2 x Visible Communities Mentorships: one mentorship for a UK-based Black or Brown literary translator and one for a UK-based literary translator from the diaspora, heritage or community languages of the UK(mentored by either Meena Kandasamy or Sawad Hussain)
• British Centre for Literary Translation and British Council Mentorship: one mentorship for a literary translator currently resident in a country on the OECD list of countries qualifying for Official Development Assistance, or (in the case of refugees or asylum-seekers from ODA-eligible countries) who has been resident in their destination country for 12 months or fewer (mentored by Canan Marasligil). Two runners-up will receive two digital mentoring sessions each (mentored by Ros Schwartz)

 Here is the link with all the info: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/emerging-translator-mentorships/apply-now-2/