The following 18 mentorships are available in 2025.

Find general requirements and application instructions for the mentorships here.

apply for a 2025 Mentorship 

Bangla, with mentor Shabnam Nadiya

Contemporary Literature from Québec, with mentor Madeleine Stratford

Gujarati, with mentor Jenny Bhatt

Hindi, with mentor Daisy Rockwell

Japanese, with mentor Takami Nieda

Kannada, with mentor Srinath Perur

Kashmiri, with mentor Kalpana Raina

Korean Poetry, with mentor Jack Jung

Korean Prose, with mentor Janet Hong

Literature from Taiwan, with mentor Lin King

Persian, with mentor poupeh missaghi

Poetry from Hong Kong, with mentor May Huang

Polish, with mentor Bill Johnston

Premodern, Classical, or Early Modern Literature from a South Asian Language, with mentor Arshia Sattar

Prose from Hong Kong, with mentor Jennifer Feeley

Swedish, with mentor Rachel Willson-Broyles

Telugu, with mentor Afsar Mohammad

Urdu, with mentor Sana R. Chaudhry

The mentorships are offered by ALTA in partnership with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea, the Mo Habib Prize at the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, Québec Édition, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global, the South Asian Literature in Translation (SALT) Project, the Swedish Arts Council, the Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, and the Yanai Initiative.