Deadline: August 1, 2024 11:59 PM EDT
SUBMISSION FORM
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants were established in the summer of 2003 by a gift from Priscilla and Michael Henry Heim in response to the low number of literary translations currently appearing in English. Their purpose is to promote the publication and reception of translated world literature in English.
Deadline: Submissions will be accepted from June 1 through August 1, 2024. Submissions will close at 11:59 p.m. (EST, end of day) on August 1.
Eligibility: Translations of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama, originally written by a single individual.
Translations should not have previously appeared in English in print or should have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation.
Works should be translations-in-progress, as the grant aims to provide support for completion.
There are no restrictions on the nationality or citizenship of the translator, but the works must be translated into English.
There are no restrictions on the nationality or citizenship of the translator, but the works must be translated into English.
Projects may have a maximum of two translators but are limited to one original author.
NOT eligible: Translations of works with multiple original authors, such as anthologies, translations of literary criticism, and scholarly or otherwise technical texts.
Note: Translations from Italian will be considered for the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature.
Note: Translators may only submit one project per year. Projects that have been previously submitted and have not received a grant are unlikely to be reconsidered in a subsequent year. Translators who have previously been awarded grants by the Fund are ineligible to reapply for three years after the year in which they receive a grant–for example, grant recipients from 2021 are now eligible to reapply.
NOT eligible: Translations of works with multiple original authors, such as anthologies, translations of literary criticism, and scholarly or otherwise technical texts.
Note: Translations from Italian will be considered for the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature.
Note: Translators may only submit one project per year. Projects that have been previously submitted and have not received a grant are unlikely to be reconsidered in a subsequent year. Translators who have previously been awarded grants by the Fund are ineligible to reapply for three years after the year in which they receive a grant–for example, grant recipients from 2021 are now eligible to reapply.