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SummerSALT training: Emerging translators invited to apply
South Asian Literature in Translation (the SALT Project) is pleased to announce SummerSALT, a weeklong residential summer school for emerging translators from South Asian languages. The school will be held in partnership with the American Institute for Lankan Studies,...
SALT Announces Emerging Translator Mentees
SALT is delighted to announce our first cohort of translation mentees as part of the American Literary Translators Association's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program. These emerging translators will be working directly with experienced translators, who have agreed...
SALT announces travel awards for publishers
South Asian Languages in Translation (the SALT Project) is delighted to announce the publishers that have been awarded travel funds for self-directed research and discovery. This initiative is one component of SALT's goal to enrich the process whereby publishers find...
Curious about literary translation as a profession?
Tuesday, October 31, 9:30 am UChicagoGRAD HQ (Third floor of Campus Bookstore, 970 E 58th) How do you take a text that you've translated for your dissertation and reposition it for a much broader literary audience? What are the practicalities of securing the...
Conversation with Daniel Hahn at UChicago
Translator Daniel Hahn (UK) sits down with Rachel Galvin and Jason Grunebaum to discuss the world of translation, how to become a translator, and the new South Asian Literature in Translation project at UChicago. Monday, October 30, noon Room 408, Wieboldt Hall (1050...
SALT: Mentorships for Emerging Translators
SALT’s mentorship program, in partnership with the American Literary Translators Association’s Emerging Translators Mentorship Program, kicks off with our inaugural slate of eight mentorships. We are delighted to announce that these distinguished translators have...
SALT announces publisher travel grants
The SALT Project’s travel grant program 2023-24 is open to any publisher that publishes in English and is based outside of South Asia. (South Asia, for the purposes of this project, includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.) If this...
SALT announces advisory board
The SALT project, co-directed by Jason Grunebaum and Daniel Hahn, has announced its Advisory Board as part of its launch in June 2023. SALT has advisors based in six countries and working in nine languages. Members of the advisory board are: Aron Aji Ajit Baral...
SALT in the Guardian
New project seeks to bring south Asian literature to western readers: Founded by two translators – one American, one British – the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation school. Link to the full article
SALT featured in Publishing Perspectives
A leading translator very familiar to Publishing Perspectives’ international readership, this morning (March 28) has announced a new program created to promote South Asian literature in translation into English, the South Asian Literature in Translation project. Link...