February 2022 translation news roundup

Julia Sanches has won the 2022 PEN Translation Prize(opens in a new tab) for her translation from Spanish of Mariana Oliver’s Migratory Birds.

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced the 2022 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program(opens in a new tab) mentees.

The UK-based Translation Exchange and the Stephen Spender Trust will present a virtual symposium on March 2 focused on creative translation in educational settings(opens in a new tab).

International Booker Prize-winning translator Jennifer Croft leads efforts to shine a spotlight on the art of translation(opens in a new tab).

The National Endowment for the Arts’s new Quick Study audio series uses research to explore the arts sector; February’s episode explores recent data on book reading and how habits changed during the pandemic(opens in a new tab).

Swahili’s bid to become a language for all of Africa(opens in a new tab).

The Ukrainian language is having a moment(opens in a new tab).

The Believer is the latest in a string of literary magazines to cease publication(opens in a new tab) in a struggling industry.

The Center for Fiction has created a list of books by Ukrainian authors(opens in a new tab).

Over at The Rumpus, a reading list for Black History month(opens in a new tab).

LitHub writes about a new generation of Chinese writers.(opens in a new tab)

How Yiddish scholars are rescuing women’s novels from obscurity(opens in a new tab).

Afghanistan’s libraries remain closed and neglected(opens in a new tab) under the Taliban regime.

What role does fiction play in a “post-truth” age?(opens in a new tab)

Poet and ALTA Program Manager Kelsi Vanada shares her students’ response to the Center’s Poetry Inside Out(opens in a new tab) poetry and translation curriculum.

The history of American literature is a history of its libraries.(opens in a new tab)

New NEA chair Maria Rosario Jackson talks about the future of the arts(opens in a new tab).

In case you missed it, for Valentine’s Day we took a look back at the art of trysting.

Public Fellow Kelsey McFaul considers almost 200 years of translations of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic classic Jane Eyre, including into nearly 60 languages, including Chinese, Turkish, Amharic, and more.