At ALTA, we are very proud of the many accomplishments of our current and former mentees. The achievements listed in the following categories (book-length publications, other publications, fellowships and awards received, and other career-related accomplishments) represent only a sampling of the exciting work our mentees are doing in literary translation. Check back often to see what the mentees are up to!

Book-length Publications

• Stories of a Life by Nataliya Meshchaninova, translated from Russian by Fiona Bell ('18-'19), forthcoming from Deep Vellum, 2021
• The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes (‘17-’18), forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2021
• The World's Lightest Motorcycle by Yi Won, translated from Korean by Marci Calabretta ('17-'18) & E. J. Koh ('17-'18), forthcoming from Zephyr Press, 2021
• Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints by Teffi, translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17) and others, forthcoming from NYRB Classics, 2021
• The Tool & the Butterflies by Dmitry Lipskerov, translated from Russian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (‘17-’18), Deep Vellum, 2021
• Carbide by Andriy Lyubka, translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes (‘17-’18), Jantar Publishing, 2021
• The Beast, and Other Tales by Jóusè d'Arbaud, translated from Provençal by Joyce Zonana ('15-'16), Northwestern University Press, 2020
• The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E. J. Koh ('17-'18), Tin House, 2020
• A Land Like You by Tobie Nathan, translated from French by Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16), Seagull Books, 2020
• Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), Two Lines Press (US) / Granta (UK), 2020
• Malicroix by Henri Bosco, translated from French by Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16), New York Review Books, 2020
• The Memoir of an Anti-Hero by Kornel Filipowicz, translated from Polish by Anna Zaranko ('15-'16), Penguin Classics, 2019
• Translating Across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys Between Media, edited by Madeleine Campbell ('17-'18) and Ricarda Vidal, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
• Lonely Face by Yeng Pway Ngon, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), Balestier Press, 2019
• A Classic Tragedy by Xu Xiaobin, co-translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) and Nicky Harman, Balestier Press, 2019
• Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes (‘17-’18), Deep Vellum, 2016

Other Publications

• "Munkar and Nakir," a short story by Alisa Ganieva, translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17) in Words Without Borders (February 2021)
• Two articles about Polish theater and visual art in the year 2020, translated from Polish by Lauren Dubowski ('18-'19) in Culture.pl (December 2020)
• "Housework," a poem by Chung Kwok-keung, translated from Chinese (Hong Kong) by May Huang ('20) in Circumference (fall 2020)
• “We were sorting apricots…," a poem by Elena Isaeva, translated from Russian by Fiona Bell ('18-'19) in American Chordata (Issue 10, fall 2020)
• Buried Sun, a web documentary by Ola Jach translated from Polish by Lauren Dubowski ('18-'19) (Fall 2020)
• "A House in Jabal Amman" by Nadim Abdul-Hadi, translated from Arabic by Madeline Edwards ('20), in Rusted Radishes Beirut Literary and Art Journal (August 2020)
• “Inside You in Your Absence," a story by Tatsiana Zamirovskaya, translated from Russian by Fiona Bell ('18-'19), in Institute of the Cosmos Cosmic Bulletin (2020)
• "Fire," an excerpt from Kokbalaq by Mukhtar Magauin, translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali ('18-'19), in The Massachusetts Review (Summer 2020)
• An excerpt from Love at the Harbor by Kim Sehee, translated from Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris ('20) in The Margins (July 2020)
• "The View from Home: Photography from the Coronavirus Pandemic," a series of interviews translated from Polish by Lauren Dubowski ('18-'19) in Culture.pl (Summer 2020)
• Two poems by George Seferis, translated from Modern Greek by Jennifer Kellogg ('18-'19) in The Common (Summer 2020) 
• “People and Other Beings,"short fiction by Marianna Geide, translated from Russian by Fiona Bell ('18-'19) in Asymptote (2020)
• "Short Tales" by Pere Calders, translated from Catalan by Tiago Miller ('20), in Asymptote (April 2020)
• Three poems by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Wheeler (‘17-’18), in The Poet (Spring 2020)
• An excerpt from A Green Bus Leaves Aleppo by Jan Dost, translated from Arabic by Madeline Edwards ('20), in ArabLit Quarterly (Spring 2020)
• "The Diva Mode of Translation," an essay on translation by Fiona Bell ('18-'19), in Asymptote (April 2020)
• “Sour Meat" by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), in That We May Live, Two Lines Press (2020)
• "A Book in the Mirror," flash fiction by Saghadat Ordasheva, translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali ('18-'19), in Exchanges (December 2019)
• “Cloth Birds" by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), Words Without Borders & Poem-a-Day (September 2019)
• “Moth Eyes" by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), PEN Transmissions (July 2019)
• “Angelic" by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), Nashville Review (April 2019)
• “The Arrival" by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), Denver Quarterly (Summer 2019)
• “Lessons in the Law" by Xie Ding, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), LARB China Channel (May 2019)
• Review of translation anthology Home on the Move: Two Poems Go on a Journey, edited by Ricarda Vidal and Manuela Perteghella, by Madeleine Campbell ('17-'18), European Literature Network
• “In My Body" by Indah Darmastuti, translated from Indonesian by Zoë McLaughlin ('17-'18), InterSastra
• “The Disappearance" by Neus Canyelles, translated from Catalan by Marlena Gittleman ('17-'18), Asymptote
• “The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol" by Neus Canyelles, translated from Catalan by Marlena Gittleman (‘17-’18), Anomaly #28
• from Farewell to Autumn by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, translated from Polish by Lauren Dubowski ('18-'19), Witkacy! (issue 2/2018)
• “Tłumacz jako mediator dla różnych typów wrażliwości" ("The Translator as Mediator of Diverse Sensibilities"), interview between Ełżbieta Grzyb and Lauren Dubowski ('18-'19), Witkacy! (issue 2/2018)
• “The Archivist” by Mukhtar Magauin, translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali ('18-'19), Electric Literature (Dec. 2018)
• “Contagious Cities: Hong Kong” by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17), BBC Radio 3 (Nov. 2018)
• “The Lady with the Little Dog, by Anton Chekhov” by Neus Canyelles, translated from Catalan by Marlena Gittleman (‘17-’18), Asymptote (Oct. 2018)
• “Victory” by Reed Grachev, translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17), The Offing (Oct. 2018)
• from The Selected Letters of Mercè Rodoreda and Joan Sales, translated from Catalan by Scott Shanahan (‘15-’16), The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation (Aug. 2018)
• “This City I Come From,” poetry by Agnes Lam, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Words Without Borders (Aug. 2018)
• from À l'arrache by Patrick Goujon, translated from French by Noah Mintz (‘16-’17), Two Lines 29 (Fall 2018)
• “Work Hard” by Eric Chau & Chi-Wai Un, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Words Without Borders (Aug. 2018)
• “Chewing on Words” by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Words Without Borders (June 2018)
• “The Door" by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Mascara Literary Review (June 2018)
• “Mount Xianglu” & “Velvet” by Ye Mi, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Chinese Arts & Letters (June 2018)
• from “Lake like a Mirror” by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Granta (May 2018)
• “Esther” by Tobie Nathan, translated from French by Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16), Nashville Review 25 (Spring 2018)
• “Too Much/Not Enough: Translating Reed Grachev,” an essay by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17), The Paris Review Daily (March 2018)
• “The Escape,” by Andriy Lyubka, translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes (‘17-’18), The Odessa Review (Feb. 2018)
• “A Room for Sorrow,” by Andriy Lyubka, translated from Ukrainian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Reilly Costigan-Humes (‘17-’18), Apofenie (Feb. 2018)
• “A Debate on Happiness” and “No Voice,” by Reed Grachev, translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17), Subtropics (Fall/Winter 2017)
• “Bluebells” by Reed Grachev, translated from Russian by Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17), Catapult (Oct. 2017)
• “Monthly Matters” by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Wasafiri (Sept. 2017)
• “You’ve Likely Never Been to a Party This Big” by Borja Bagunyà, translated from Catalan by Scott Shanahan (‘15-’16), Words Without Borders (April 2017)
• “Fish Tank Creatures” by Dorothy Tse, co-translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) and Nicky Harman, Anomaly 25 (2017)
• “The Wall” by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce ('16-'17), Asia Literary Review (2017)

Fellowships & Awards

• 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)
• 2021 PEN Open Book Award Longlist, E. J. Koh ('17-'18)
• 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner, E. J. Koh ('17-'18)
• 2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation Honorable Mention, May Huang ('20)
• 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition, 3rd place, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)
• 2020 Found in Translation Award from the Polish Cultural Institute, Anna Zaranko (‘15-‘16)
• 2020 Translator in Residence at the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)
• March 2020 MacDowell Colony Residency, Joyce Zonana ('15-'16)
• 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, Fiona Bell ('18-'19)
• 2020 Julia Keith Shrout Short Story Prize, Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17)
• 2020 Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Prose, Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17) 
• 2019 Words Without Borders Poems in Translation Prize, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) 
• 2019 Global Humanities Translation Prize, Joyce Zonana ('15-'16)
• 2019 TA First Translation Prize shortlist, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) & mentor/editor Jeremy Tiang
• 2019 English PEN Translates Award, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)
• Finalist for the 2nd annual Käpylä Translation Prize, Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17)
• April/May 2019 Yaddo Corporation Residency, Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16)
• 2018 Translation Lab Residency at Art Omi, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)
• February 2018 MacDowell Colony fellow, Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16)
• Shortlist for the 2018 Käpylä Translation Prize, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) 
• 2018 Luce Foundation Poetry & Translation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17) 
• 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16)
• 2017 Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, Bread Loaf Translators Conference, Joyce Zonana (‘15-’16)
• 2017 PEN Presents South & Southeast Asia Prize, Natascha Bruce (‘16-’17)

Other Accomplishments

• Lauren Dubowski's ('18-'19) translation from Polish of The Death of Ophelia by Stanisław Wyspiański was performed as part of the Yale Cabaret's Rough Drafts festival in May 2021
• Fiona Bell (‘18-’19) is now a PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University
• Noah Mintz (‘16-’17) is now a PhD student in French at Columbia University
• Sabrina Jaszi (‘16-’17) is now a PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley 
• Marlena Gittleman (‘17-’18) is now a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley

If you are a current or former ALTA mentee, and would like to add an accomplishment to this list, please email Program Manager Kelsi Vanada at kelsi@literarytranslators.org.