{"id":273236,"date":"2009-08-20T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/08\/20\/nea-grants-and-open-letter\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:30","slug":"nea-grants-and-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/08\/20\/nea-grants-and-open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"NEA grants and Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Endowment for the Arts just announced its 2010 winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/grants\/recent\/10grants\/LitTranslation.html\">Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects<\/a>. And there&#8217;s a few Open Letter connections this year.<\/p>\n<p>First, Charlotte Mandell won a grant to translate Mathias Enard&#8217;s <em>Zone<\/em> (&#8220;The narrative unfolds during a train journey from Milan to Rome, and interweaves the narrator&#8217;s experiences in the war in Yugoslavia with other stories of war &#8212; from the Trojan War to World War II to present-day clashes.&#8221;), which we&#8217;ll be publishing next year. <\/p>\n<p>And two Open Letter alumna won this year too: Ellen Elias-Bursac, who translated <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/1-ugresic#nobody\"><em>Nobody&#8217;s Home<\/em><\/a> for us, won a grant to translate the first modern Croatian novel; and Martha Tennent, who translated <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/9-rodoreda#death\"><em>Death in Spring<\/em><\/a>, won a grant to translate some of Merc\u00e8 Rodoreda&#8217;s short stories.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to everyone who won. (And now to send off some emails! Oh Martha&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200908b.htm#nr3\">via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Endowment for the Arts just announced its 2010 winners of the Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects. And there&#8217;s a few Open Letter connections this year. First, Charlotte Mandell won a grant to translate Mathias Enard&#8217;s Zone (&#8220;The narrative unfolds during a train journey from Milan to Rome, and interweaves the narrator&#8217;s experiences in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,15336,21176,16976,5446,1646],"class_list":["post-273236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-ellen-elias-bursac","tag-martha-tennent","tag-mathias-enard","tag-nea","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273236\/revisions\/323356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}