Tools for Translators
Translation
The PEN Translation Committee advocates for literary translators, working to foster a wider understanding of their art and offering professional resources for translators, publishers, critics and others with an interest in international literature.
Translation Resources
Directory of Working Translators
A listing of PEN Members working as translators in more than 25 different languages
A selection of critical works on the theories and methods behind translating literature
A listing of academic programs that offer courses and degrees in translation
A selection of academic and literary journals that publish works in translation
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
Grants that support translations of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English
Prizes and fellowships that are available to translators in order to help them complete their work
Contact information for presses that publish works in translation
A template of a standard publishing contract for a work in translation, covering royalties, publicity, and reversion of rights
A few helpful answers to questions regarding rights and work-for-hire contracts
Featured Translations
Grandfather was supposed to have also started the fire brigade. Before, when...
Today I put on / a hot red blood / today people love me / a woman smiled at...
What are you waiting for? You have your / orders–strew the ground with...
One by one I began to rip off in chips the made-up skin of the little...
There you sit / in the same skirt in which, waters ago, / you boarded the...