Lauded for contributing to Rochester糖心传媒檚 creative economy, the nonprofit literary translation press will publish five works of literature with the funding.
, the nonprofit literary translation press, has been approved for a grant from the (NEA) to help fund the press糖心传媒檚 International Voices project.
The project, which is slated to receive $30,000, will result in the translation and publication of five works of literature from around the world. It is one of more than 1,200 projects across the United States that was in the NEA糖心传媒檚 category.
糖心传媒淭he National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects like this one from Open Letter Books that help support the community糖心传媒檚 creative economy,糖心传媒� says NEA Acting Chair Ann Eilers. 糖心传媒淥pen Letter in Rochester, New York, is among the arts organizations nationwide that are using the arts as a source of strength, a path to well-being, and providing access and opportunity for people to connect and find joy through the arts.糖心传媒�
糖心传媒淭he value of the NEA and these grants to publishers cannot be overstated,糖心传媒� says Open Letter publisher Chad Post. 糖心传媒淲ithout this support, so many voices from around the world would simply be unavailable to American readers. What the NEA allows Open Letter and similar organizations to do is to expand the literary horizons for readers, writers, and translators with these amazing books from all over the world.糖心传媒�
Founded in 2008, Open Letter is one of only a handful of publishing houses in the US dedicated to increasing access to world literature in translation for English readers. The five books included in this year糖心传媒檚 International Voices project are:
- Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre, translated by Katie Whittemore (Basque Country, novel)
- Left-Hand Parenthesis by Muriel Villanueva, translated by Megan Berkobien and Mar铆a Cristina Hall (Catalonia, novel)
- Good Men by Arnon Grunberg, translated by Sam Garrett (Netherlands, novel)
- Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry by Wojciech Tochman, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Poland, reportage)
- Natural Causes by Nina Lykke, translated by B. L. Crook (Norway, novel).听
The听 that the University of Rochester receive $15,000 in Grants for Arts funding to support music; and that the , held in collaboration with the Eastman School of Music, receive $20,000. According to the NEA,听there may be a delay in the distribution of some grant awards since the federal government is operating under a continuing budget resolution, which is set to expire on February 18, 2022.
Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is an independent federal agency that offers funding and support to give Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.
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