March 2025 Translation News Roundup

The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce the African Language Literatures in Translation series(opens in a new tab), a new venue for literature originally written in African languages.
Applications to the 2025 Stevns Translation Prize are due April 15(opens in a new tab). Open to emerging French to English translators, the winner will receive a paid contract to translate Avant que j’oublie by Anne Pauly, a translation retreat, 6-month mentorship, and travel expenses.
The Community of Writers and the Writers’ Annex have joined forces to offer “Latin American Death Trip,”(opens in a new tab) an online course led by Carmen Giménez and Forrest Gander exploring the dark and beautiful manifestations of Death in Latin American Poetry. Meets online weekly from March 30-May 4.
A secret book club in occupied Ukraine(opens in a new tab) reads texts banned by Russia.

The International Booker Prize(opens in a new tab) shortlist will be announced on April 8. Astrid Roemer’s On a Woman’s Madness, translated by Lucy Scott, has been longlisted for this year’s award.
Shout out to the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners(opens in a new tab), including the winner of the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, A Last Supper of Queer Apostles(opens in a new tab), by Pedro Lemebel, translated from Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper.
The 2025 Dublin Literary Award shortlist(opens in a new tab) was announced; two of the six books on the list are translations.
Open Letter has won the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize in the US and Canada(opens in a new tab) for Melvill(opens in a new tab), by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from Spanish by Will Vanderhyden. The prize celebrates the commitment of independent presses to fiction of exceptional literary merit.
The 2025 PEN America Literary Awards longlists(opens in a new tab) have been announced, including the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the PEN Translation Prize. The Literary Awards Ceremony is on May 8.
Celebration by Damir Karakaš, translated from Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać, has been shortlisted for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize(opens in a new tab).

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