PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature
The PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature awards a grant to a translator for a work-in-progress of a book-length translation of an Italian work into English. More
2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
PEN America is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2020 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and the winner of the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. More
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
For the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English in print or have appeared only in an outdated… More
2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
Now in its sixteenth year, PEN America is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2018-19 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants. More
from A Walk in the Shadows
No threat or reprimand could calm our racing hearts and the restlessness spurred by a place where rules and prohibitions fell on us without weight, like a feather. More
from Beyond Babylon
They’d told her to go there and make no detours. Because that was where people refashioned their dreams. That was where people found all the Somalis again. More
2018 PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION FUND GRANTS
PEN America is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants and the winner of the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. The Translation… More
Battles, Recollections, Etc.
And a woman who finds herself in the eye of the storm—what does she do? Forced to decide between complicity and armed opposition, between slavery and life, what does… More
The PEN Ten with Michael F. Moore
As an interpreter I’m a bit of a stage mother, pushing the writer or director for whom I’m interpreting to jump into the conversation (Forza! Dai! Sfondi! I whisper).… More