ALTA is seeking expert readers for the 2017 National Translation Awards! We are looking for readers in the following languages:

Arabic | Chinese | French | German | Hungarian | Japanese
Mongolian | Portuguese | Romanian | Spanish | Swedish

Expert readers will be provided with a PDF of the book to be evaluated. Reader reports must be delivered by July 17.

Per the NTA Policies and Procedures, to serve as an expert reader, a person must have expertise in the source language of the translation he/she is asked to assess, and have published at least one translated book.

Please email Rachael Daum (rachaeldaum@literarytranslators.org) by June 23 if you are interested, specifying the language and genre you translate from (i.e. Hungarian Poetry).