by brill | May 22, 2024 | Opportunities, Opportunities for translators, SALT announces
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 August 5-9, 2024, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The application...
by brill | Feb 6, 2024 | Opportunities, Opportunities for translators, SALT announces
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...
by brill | Feb 1, 2024 | Opportunities, Opportunities for translators, SALT announces
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,...
by brill | Nov 15, 2023 | Opportunities, Opportunities for publishers, SALT announces
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...
by brill | Oct 23, 2023 | Chicago, Opportunities, Opportunities for translators
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...
by brill | Oct 16, 2023 | Chicago, Opportunities, Opportunities for translators
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...
by brill | Sep 5, 2023 | Opportunities, Opportunities for 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...
by brill | Jul 27, 2023 | Opportunities, Opportunities for publishers
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...
by brill | Jun 27, 2023 | SALT announces
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...
by brill | Jun 27, 2023 | SALT in the news
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...
