November 2026 Translation News Roundup

Our monthly roundup of literary translation news and opportunities.

The Transformation Review welcomes submissions of short- or long-form reviews of poetry in translation, essays on translation, or poetry in translation. Submissions are open all year long. Learn more here(opens in a new tab).

Anomalous Press is open for submissions of works in translation. They’re looking for “work that expands our literary, linguistic, or cultural horizons; work that knows translation is a conversation; important voices that have been marginalized; voices too contemporary, too rooted, or too resistant to have yet reached English-reading ears. Show us the world.” Their deadline is February 1, 2027. Learn more and submit here(opens in a new tab).

The Markaz Review is open for submissions for their next themed issue: Mis/Translation(opens in a new tab): “We invite works in translation but also, especially, about translation. Send us your meandering translator’s notes, your essays about the craft and its varied guises, your poetry, fiction, visual arts, and any other medium that inspires you. Tell us what gets lost, found, distorted, or invented in the crossing.” The deadline is Friday, November 20, 2026, or once their submission quota is reached.

Canadian poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature(opens in a new tab). Her translations of classical works include An Oresteia, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, Antigone, and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy. 

PEN America has announced the Literary Grant Winners, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants. Two Lines Press Senior Editor, Sarah Coolidge, was one of the judges for this year’s prize. Each translator will receive a grant of $4,000 to support the translations’ completion. See the full list here(opens in a new tab).

The American Literary Translators Association announced the winners of the 2026 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose(opens in a new tab). I Gave You Eyes and You Looked toward Darkness by Irene Solà, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (Graywolf Press), won the Prose award, and I Have Brought You a Severed Hand by Ghayath Almadhoun, translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham (Action Books), won the Poetry award. They have also announced the winners for the 2026 Italian Prose in Translation Award, the 2026 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, the 2026 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award, and the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize. See the full list here(opens in a new tab).

The 2027 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize is now open for your submissions(opens in a new tab). The prize will be awarded to a translator for a book-length translation from German into English in North America. Submissions may encompass any genre and must have been published in the United States or Canada in the 2026 calendar year. The prize-winning translator receives $5,000 as well as a fully funded trip to the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The deadline to submit is January 15, 2027.

“Spotlight on Translation: Three Translators on Galvanizing Interest in Literature Translated from Arabic, Greek, and Swahili.” Read Olivia Snaije’s article in Publishing Perspectives(opens in a new tab), featuring Dr. Uta Reuster-Jahn, a German academic, researcher, and lecturer. Reuster-Jahn’s translations of the piece from Selfishness by Lilian Mbaga appear in No Edges(opens in a new tab), published by Two Lines Press.

“The novel explores how grief pulls Anne in two directions: toward celebrating her freedom from a violent man, and toward the compassion she still can’t deny him… By refusing to resolve Anne’s turmoil, Pauly rejects the comfort of a clean verdict. To judge her father would mean discarding one version of him to make room for the other. So Anne holds both, and she lets the holding be the answer,” Peyton Hassinger writes in The Sewanee Review on Anne Pauly’s novel Before I Forget(opens in a new tab), translated by Dina Leifer and published by Two Lines Press.

“It felt like a beat of particular gratitude that we were all together and that some experiences that trans people have span across language and culture as universal and unifying moments.” Ramona Flores, from the White Whale Bookstore, reflects on their event in celebration of Splendor. See this and more reflections from our event partners here.

“I’m interested in expanding what trans poetry is and can be. It can be angry and political; it can be gentle and joyous; it can be confessional or abstract”, — Sarah Coolidge, Two Lines Press’ Senior Editor, discusses how Splendor came together in an interview with Paul Semel. Read here(opens in a new tab).

“My first book-length translation into English will be out in the spring. It’s a contemporary novel by an Iranian author who has never been translated before. That was a huge milestone for me and just thinking about it gives me all the energy I need to get through the day”, — AJ Javaheri, translator of Frozen Sparrows, coming out April 20, 2027, reflects on her relationship to translation in The Massachusetts Review(opens in a new tab).

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