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Oct 17, 2025
Online Event

Works in Progress Part 5: 2025 NEA Translation Fellows Conversation Series

Celebrating the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellows and their award-winning projects, which span 17 different languages across 21 countries.

Elina Alter, Soleil David, and Julia Sanches present and read from their award-winning projects, and discuss the special pleasures and complexities of bringing it into English. This session includes remarks by The NEA Translation Fellowships Panel who helped to select the 2025 cohort of Translation Fellows.

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

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