Works in Progress: 2025 NEA Translation Fellows Conversation Series

Join us to celebrate the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellows in a series of conversations about their award-winning projects, which span 17 different languages across 21 countries. Across five weekly virtual conversations, each Fellow will present and read from their book, and discuss the special pleasures and complexities of bringing it into English.

Each session will showcase three to four Fellows in conversation. The final session will include remarks by the panelists who helped to select this year’s cohort of Translation Fellows.

• Session one (September 19): Jeanne Garane, Larissa Kyzer, Thierry Kehou, and Natasha Wimmer
• Session two (September 26): Kalau Almony, Thomas Mira y Lopez, Jeffrey Zuckerman, and Liz Evans Weber
• Session three (October 3): Jenny Bhatt, Alex Zucker, Mara Faye Lethem, and Alta L. Price
• Session four (October 10): Michael Bazzett, Brad Harmon, Caroline Froh, and YZ Chin
• Session five (October 17): Elina Alter, Soleil David, Julia Sanches, and the 2025 NEA Translation Fellowships panel

Browse bios, artist statements, and writing excerpts from the 2025 Literature Fellows in Translation(opens in a new tab).

This series of conversations is co-organized by YZ Chin and Jeffrey Zuckerman and hosted by the Center for the Art of Translation.

Your registration confirmation will include a link to watch previous conversations that you may have missed.

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in an event, please contact leslie-ann@catranslation.org(opens in a new tab) with as much advance notice as possible.