Meet our alumni

Emerging Translators 2023

  • Indonesian – Anandita Budiman, mentored by Khairani Barokka
  • Italian – Antonella Lettieri, mentored by Howard Curtis
  • Japanese – Cat Anderson, mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter
  • Québec French – Claire Gullander-Drolet, mentored by Sarah Ardizzone
  • Polish – Dawid Mobolaji, mentored by Sean Gasper Bye
  • Welsh – Emyr Wallace Humphreys, mentored by Meena Kandasamy
  • Korean – Gene Png, mentored by Anton Hur
  • Danish – Hazel Evans, mentored by Paul Russell Garrett
  • Arabic – Ibrahim Sayed Fawzy, mentored by Sawad Hussain
  • Swedish – Megan Evans, mentored by Nichola Smalley
  • Norwegian – Olivia Blyth, mentored by Rosie Hedger
  • Ukrainian – Tetiana Savchynska, mentored by Nina Murray
  • Hindi – Vaibhav Sharma, mentored by Daisy Rockwell


Supported by Arts Council England, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, the Danish Arts Foundation, The Saroj Lal Mentorship, Harvill Secker, the Italian Cultural Institute, Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda University, the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, The Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Polish Cultural Institute, the Québec Government Office in London, Society of Authors, the Swedish Arts Council, the British Centre for Literary Translation, the British Council and the Visible Communities programme.

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Emerging Translators 2022

  • Swiss German – Astrid Freuler, mentored by Jamie Lee Searle)
  • Italian – Amaryllis Gacioppo, mentored by Howard Curtis)
  • Arabic – Salma Harland, mentored by Sawad Hussain)
  • Polish – Jess Jensen Mitchell, mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
  • Latvian – Ieva Lakute, mentored by Kaija Straumanis)
  • Norwegian – Lise Lærdal Bryn, mentored by Kari Dickson)
  • Ukranian – Hanna Leliv, mentored by Canan Marasligil)
  • Russian – Irina Sadovina, mentored by Oliver Ready)
  • Korean – Shanna Tan, mentored by Anton Hur)
  • Japanese – Yuki Tejima, mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
  • Hungarian – Csilla Toldy, mentored by Meena Kandasamy)

 

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Emerging Translators 2021

  • Danish – Sharon Rhodes, mentored by Paul Russell Garrett
  • Italian – Georgia Wall, mentored by Howard Curtis
  • Korean – Clare Richards, mentored by JB Anton Hur
  • Norwegian – Alice Fletcher, mentored by Kari Dickson
  • Polish – Konrad Zielinski, mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Russian – Reuben Woolley mentored by Robert Chandler
  • Swiss French – Rosie Eyre, mentored by Sarah Ardizzone
  • Visible Communities Mentorship – Anam Zafar, mentored by Meena Kandasamy
  • Japanese – Jesse Kirkwood, mentored by Polly Barton

 

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Emerging Translators 2020

  • Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize: French – Anna Leader, mentored by Sarah Ardizzone
  • Korean – Rachel Min Park, mentored by Deborah Smith
  • Norwegian – Megan Turney, mentored by Kari Dickson
  • Polish – Marek Maj, mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Russian – Siân Valvis, mentored by Robert Chandler
  • Swiss Italian – Elena Pala, mentored by Howard Curtis
  • Tilted Axis Mentorship for a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic literary translator – Yan Chen (Chinese), mentored by Jeremy Tiang
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Emerging Translators 2019

  • Bengali – Subha Prasad Sanyal mentored by Arunava Sinha
  • Indonesian – Mikael Johani mentored by Pamela Allen
  • Korean – Mattho Mandersloot mentored by Deborah Smith
  • Lithuanian – Kotryna Garanasvili mentored by Daniel Hahn
  • Norwegian – Rachel Rankin mentored by Don Bartlett
  • Polish – Kate Webster mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Swedish – Andy Turner mentored by Sarah Death
  • Tilted Axis Mentorship – Hindi – Kavita Bhanot, mentored by Jeremy Tiang
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Emerging Translators 2018

  • Arabic – Mona Kareem, mentored by Paul Starkey
  • Catalan – Iain Robinson, mentored by Peter Bush
  • Greek – Joshua Barley, mentored by David Connolly
  • Korean – Erica Chung, mentored by Deborah Smith
  • Latin American Spanish – Ellen Jones, mentored by Samantha Schnee
  • Latvian – Mārta Ziemelis, mentored by Daniel Hahn
  • Lithuanian – Erika Lastovskyte, mentored by Shaun Whiteside
  • Malayalam – Aswathy Senan, mentored by J Devika
  • Norwegian 1 [2 x funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy] – Bruce Thomson, mentored by Don Bartlett
  • Norwegian 2 – Alison McCullough, mentored by Kari Dickson
  • Polish – Zosia Krasodomska-Jones, mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Tamil – Suchitra Ramachandran, mentored by Subashree Krishnaswamy and Dilip Kumar

Emerging Translators 2017

  • Arabic – Francisca McNeill, mentored by Paul Starkey
  • Bengali – Somrita Ganguly, mentored by Arunava Sinha
  • Catalan – Jennifer Arnold, mentored by Peter Bush
  • Finland Swedish – Kate Lambert, mentored by Sarah Death
  • Hindi – Agnel Joseph, mentored by Jason Grunebaum
  • Norwegian [in conjunction with the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize) – Marta Eidsvåg, mentored by Don Bartlett
  • Polish – Scotia Gilroy, mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  • Russian Drama – Yelena Karl, mentored by Sasha Dugdale