Prizes

Prizes

Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize Open for Submissions

Announcing the 2023 Shortlists of the Italian Prose in Translation Award, Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award!

September 14, 2023—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the 2023 shortlists for the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA)!

Announcing the Longlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose!

September 1, 2023—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced today the longlists for the 2023 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose. 2023 marks the 25th year for the NTA, and the 9th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.

Submissions Open for 2023 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation

The 2023 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation is open to short prose, fiction, and nonfiction in translation! The winner receives $1,000 and publication, and honorable mentions receive $250. All submissions will be considered for online publication. This year’s prize is judged by the incomparable Katrina Dodson. Find out more here, and be sure to submit by August 31! 

Submissions Open for Sheikh Zayed Book Award

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the Arab world’s most prestigious literary prizes, is now open for submissions for its 18th edition!

Authors, translators, researchers, publishers and universities can submit or nominate works in ten different categories, including Translation to or from Arabic, and a new category for Manuscripts!

Winners are awarded a career-changing cash prize, and funding is available for international publishers to translate winning and shortlisted titles for Literature and Children’s Literature categories.

Winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announced

The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award are in! After another year of record-breaking number of submissions, Prof. Chokri Al Saadi was awarded for his outstanding translation into Arabic of John R. Searle’s  Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Al Saadi will be awarded alongside the other winners at a ceremony at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair on 23rd May.

Learn about the winners on the SZBA website: www.zayedaward.ae

Meet the 2023 ALTA Awards Judges!

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to spotlight the judges of the 2023 awards!

We are honored to have these judges serving in 2023 on the panels of the National Translation Awards (NTA) in Prose and Poetry, the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), and the ALTA Travel Fellowships.

To learn more about each award and the judges, read below. For individual judges’ bios, photo credits, and image descriptions, click the provided links.

2023 ALTA Awards Open for Submissions

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is excited to announce that the submissions portals for the 2023 ALTA awards are open! The following prizes are now accepting submissions: 

Update to National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose

Submission Opportunity for Massachusetts Translators

Calling Massachusetts translators! There is a NEW category for translated books for the 23rd Mass Book Awards, which recognize compelling works of Massachusetts. It is free to enter, and translators must be a current resident of Massachusetts (adult and younger reader audiences welcome) and published anywhere in the year 2022. The deadline to submit is December 31, 2022. Find out how to submit here: https://www.massbook.org/guidelines-2022-pub-date

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