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Announcing the 2016 ALTA Travel Fellowship Recipients!

ALTA TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED!
– $1,000 to emerging translators working from
– Fellows reading at ALTA39: Translation & Crossings (October 6-9, 2016 in Oakland, CA)

2016 ALTA Travel Fellow: Kelsi Vanada

Kelsi Vanada, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Spanish)kelsi-vanada-headshot

2016 ALTA Travel Fellow: Haider Shahbaz

Haider Shahbaz, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Urdu)haider-shahbaz

2016 ALTA Travel Fellow: Nicholas Glastonbury

Nicholas Glastonbury, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (Turkish)nicholas_glastonbury

2016 ALTA Travel Fellow: Monika Cassel

Monika Cassel, 2016 ALTA Travel Fellow (German)monika-cassell

2016 ALTA Travel Fellow: Bruna Dantas Lobato, Winner of the 2016 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship

Bruna Dantas Lobato, 2016 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Brazilian bruna-dantas-lobato_photoPortuguese)

Meet the 2016 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentees!

  • French, Polish, Russian, and Singaporean mentorships
  • Book-length project to be completed during mentorship year
  • Projects to be presented at ALTA39: Translation & Crossings (October 6-9, 2016 in Oakland, CA)

Sabrina Jaszi (2016 ALTA Mentee)

Sabrina Jaszi  Sabrina Jaszi is a fiction writer and translator of Russian fiction and poetry, based in Illinois. She earned her M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida and also holds an M.S.

Natascha Bruce (2016 ALTA Mentee)


Noah Mintz (2016 ALTA Mentee)

Noah MintzNoah M. Mintz began translating at Vassar College, where he received his B.A. in Media Studies and French & Francophone Studies. During his third year there, he spent one semester living, studying, reading, and eating in France. Somewhere between Poughkeepsie and Paris, he caught the translation bug.

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