Congratulations once more to the winners of the 2020 Virtual Travel Fellowships: Shoshana Akabas, Karen Hung Curtis, Alex Karsavin, Jamie Lauer, Dong Li, Kristen Renee Miller, Laura Nagle, Ena Selimović, and Öykü Tekten! ALTA celebrates this year’s Virtual Travel Fellows with a downloadable audio chapbook of the Fellows reading from their translations, introduced by 2009 Travel Fellow Robin Myers. Follow this link to a transcript of the readings: shorturl.at/ciHLZ

Learn all about this year's nine Fellows in the Travel Fellowships Brochure: https://literarytranslators.org/sites/default/files/imce/PressReleases/ALTA43-travel-fellows-final.pdf

Normally there are 4-6 $1,000 fellowships to bring emerging (unpublished or minimally-published) translators to the ALTA conference. With the shift to a virtual conference this year, there are instead nine $500 fellowships, including two Peter K. Jansen Memorial Fellowships, preferentially awarded to an emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language, to celebrate this year’s Virtual Travel Fellows at ALTA43. This year’s winners were selected by judges David Ball, Bonnie Chau, and Tenzin Dickie.

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