L to R: Ibrahim Fawzy, Dorottya Mária Cseresnyés, Tetiana Savchynska, Brandon Toh Kay Boon]
September 10, 2024—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the 2024 ALTA Travel Fellows!
Each year, between four and six $1,000 Travel Fellowships are awarded to emerging (unpublished or minimally published) translators to help them pay for hotel and travel expenses to the annual ALTA conference. 2024 marks the ninth year of the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship, preferentially awarded to an emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language.
This year’s winners were selected by judges Laura Nagle, Öykü Tekten, and Saskia Vogel. The 2024 ALTA Travel Fellowships are made possible thanks to the generous support of ALTA’s Past Presidents Council, the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fund, and numerous individual donors, including translators and other devoted supporters of the craft and art of literary translation.
ALTA will celebrate this year’s Travel Fellows with a reading at ALTA’s annual conference, ALTA47: Voices in Translation. The ALTA47 conference will take place from October 25-28 in Milwaukee, WI.
Congratulations to these exceptional emerging translators, chosen from among many applicants!
Ibrahim Fawzy, 2024 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Arabic)
Ibrahim Fawzy is an Arabic translator and litterateur. He’s a two-time graduate of the British Center for Literary Translation Summer School, and he was awarded a mentorship with the National Center for Writing, UK. Ibrahim won a 2024 PEN Presents award. Currently, he is an MFA student at Boston University. Learn more about Ibrahim here.
Dorottya Mária Cseresnyés, 2024 Travel Fellow (Hungarian)
Dorottya Mária Cseresnyés is a Hungarian-English translator and freelance proofreader. She holds a certificate in literary translation and will be completing her MA in English at Pázmány Péter Catholic University next year. Her translations have appeared in multiple Hungarian literary magazines. Learn more about Dorottya here.
Tetiana Savchynska, 2024 Travel Fellow (Ukrainian)
Tetiana Savchynska is a literary translator working between Ukrainian and English. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, where she studied on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her writing and translations have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Apofenie, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Learn more about Tetiana here.
Brandon Toh Kay Boon, 2024 Travel Fellow (Chinese)
Brandon Toh is a creative non-fiction writer, Chinese-English translator, and Chinese teacher from Singapore. Learn more about Brandon here.
The following applicants are honorably mentioned as this year’s Travel Fellowship finalists:
Si-Min Chong
Clare Harmon
Quamrul Hassan
Addie Leak
Tricia Viveros
Catherine Xinxin Yu
Congratulations to this year’s Travel Fellows!