Resources

Some useful information about literary translation and in particular, children’s books in translation and Russian/German/Arabic literature.

Literary translation 

• Resources for aspiring literary translators (compiled by Ruth; last updated 2021)
• European Literature Network
• “Translated fiction sells better in the UK than English fiction” (The Guardian, 2016)
• Global Literature in Libraries Initiative
• The Women in Translation campaign and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
• The International Booker Prize for literature in translation
• English PEN grants: PEN Translates, PEN Promotes, PEN Presents
• PEN/Heim translation fund grants
• Three Percent: a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester
• Emerging Translators’ Network (ETN)
• Find a literary translator: the UK Society of Authors/Translators Association
• Getting into literary translation: ALTA guides  (published by the American Literary Translators Association)
• International literature blogs
• Getting into literary translation: an interview with Ruth for AALITRA journal (May 2015) and also an interview with Ruth about getting into literary translation @  Comma Press blog (Jan 2019)
• More general resources for language careers workshops at schools and universities (compiled by Ruth)
• Between worlds: in praise of the literary translator by Miranda France, Prospect Magazine
• Found in translation: The invisible art of translation deserves wider recognition by Robert Chandler (literary translator from Russian)
• Translating Against World Literature by Nicholas Glastonbury

Children’s literature in translation

• World Kid Lit blog: news and reviews of world literature for young people, particularly active during September, #WorldKidLitMonth
• In Other Words 2018: BookTrust’s project to promote the translation and UK publication of outstanding children’s literature from around the world
• Outside in World: promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation
• IBBY’s Bookbird: Journal of International Children’s Literature
• Children’s and YA International Book Catalog: librarycat catalogue, managed by GLLI
• The White Ravens: annual selection of the best children’s and YA literature, produced by the International Youth Libary
• Have you heard? September is World Kid Lit month: blog post for Federation of Children’s Book Groups, by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Sept 2018)

Arabic-language literature 

• ArabLit (in English)
  
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF)
• Banipal magazine of modern Arab literature in English translation
• Sheikh Zayed Book Award
• Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding
• Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature (awarded by the American University in Cairo Press)
• Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
• Anna Lindh Foundation: Arab Children’s Literature Regional Programme
• ArabKidLitNow: a fresh view on contemporary Arabic children’s literature, in Arabic and in translation

German-language literature

• New Books in German 
  
• Goethe Institut translation grant programme
• Love German Books blog by Katy Derbyshire
• Helen and Kurt Wolff prize for German to English translation (awarded by Goethe Institut USA)
• Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Children’s Literature Award)
• Deutscher Buchpreis (The German Book Prize)

Russian-language literature 

• Read Russia
• Institut Perevoda / Institute of Translation 
• Lizok’s Bookshelf: Russian literature blog by Lisa Hayden Espenschade
• PapMamBook: Children’s and YA book reviews in Russian and English
• NOS Literature Prize (founded by the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation)
• Big Book Prize (website in Russian)
• Нацбест (National Bestseller Prize): website in Russian
• Russian Booker Prize (wikipedia in English) (website in Russian)