Mentorship Alumni

20/21 Mentorships

The winners of the 2020/21 Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme were:

• 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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2019/20 Mentorships

The winners of the 2019/20 Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme were:

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

Download the Emerging Literary Translators 2020 anthology here

2018/19 Mentorships

The winners of the 2018/19 Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme were:

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

Download the 2019 Emerging Literary Translators Anthology here

2017/18 Mentorships

The winners of the 2017/18 Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme were:

• Arabic – Mona Kareem (Brooklyn). Mentor: Paul Starkey.
• Catalan – Iain Robinson (Barcelona). Mentor: Peter Bush.
• Greek – Joshua Barley (Athens). Mentor: David Connolly.
• Korean [funded by the Literary Translation Institute of Korea] – Erica Chung (Brooklyn). Mentor: Deborah Smith.
• Latin American Spanish – Ellen Jones (London). Mentor: Samantha Schnee.
• Latvian [funded by Latvian Literature] – Mārta Ziemelis (Toronto). Mentor: Daniel Hahn.
• Lithuanian [funded by the Lithuanian Culture Institute] – Erika Lastovskyte (Oxford). Mentor: Shaun Whiteside.
• Malayalam – Aswathy Senan (Delhi). Mentor: J Devika.
• Norwegian 1 [2 x funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy] – Bruce Thomson (Norfolk). Mentor: Don Bartlett.
• Norwegian 2 – Alison McCullough (Stavanger). Mentor: Kari Dickson.
• Polish [funded by the Polish Cultural Institute] – Zosia Krasodomska-Jones (Cambridge). Mentor: Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
• Tamil – Suchitra Ramachandran (Basel). Mentors: Subashree Krishnaswamy and Dilip Kumar.

2016/17 Mentorships

The winners of the 2017/18 Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme were announced at the British Library on Friday 30 September as part of International Translation Day:

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

Below you can read the results of their work together.