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Translation Programs

University Programs American University Undergraduate and graduate Certificate in Translation (French, German, Russian, Spanish) Department of Language & Foreign Studies Asbury 326 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20016-8045 Phone:  (202) 885-2381 Fax: (202) 885-1076 E-mail: [email protected] www.american.edu/lfs Antioch University Los Angeles Graduate… More

Dubravka Ugrešic

This fall Dubravka Ugrešić was awarded the Jean Améry Award for Essay Writing. I was asked to deliver the laudation. The ceremony took place in Frankfurt at the Steigenberger… More

Sophia’s Childhood

Her rejection as a child helps to explain her constant search as a woman for what she had missed. Even as Empress Catherine, at the height of her autocratic… More

2011 PEN Translation Fund Grants

WinnersThe PEN Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from an anonymous donor in response to the dismayingly low number of literary… More

2009 The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

WinnerThis year’s honoree is Michael Henry Heim.The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through… More

2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerDavid Hinton for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) by Wang WeiThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More

2012 PEN Translation Fund Grants

WinnersThe PEN Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from an anonymous donor in response to the dismayingly low number of literary… More