The National Endowment for the Arts awarded 16 Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects last week. Half were awarded to translators from New York City.  Winners are: Diane Arnson Svarlien ($12,500); Chantal Bilodeau ($25,000); Olga Broumas ($12,500); Ellen Elias-Bursac ($12,500); Brian Henry ($25,000); Sandra Kingery ($12,500); Tina A. Cover ($12,500); Tess Lewis ($12,500); Charlotte Mandel ($25,000); Eugene Ostashevsky ($12,500); Elena Rivera ($12,500); Nahma Sandro ($25,000); Daniel Shapiro ($25,000); Martha Tennent($25,000); Richard Tillinghast ($12,500); Russell Valentino ($12,500).

Projects include Charlotte Mandell’s translation of Mathias Enard’s Zone. The novel, translated from French, is a single sentence spanning 500 pages. Brian Henry’s project is a translation from Slovenian of Ales Steger’s essay collection Berlin. For descriptions of all 16 projects, click here.