Organizations Filed Purposes:
To support the work of literary translators, advance the art of literary translation, serve translators, and the students, teachers, publishers,and readers of literature in translation.
ALTA's annual conference is the largest gathering of literary translators in the U.S., and the only one of its kind. It brings together nearly 500 translators, writers, and editors for an intimate, intense, three-day conversation through panels, workshops, roundtables, and on- and off-site bilingual readings. The ALTA conference is structured around the creation of high-quality art. Panels focus on important issues and trends in the field, while roundtables are structured to provide practical information to working translators, like funding and publication advice. Workshops deal with issues of craft, with participants working through solutions on the spot. Readings are performances in their own right, and many are hosted in offsite venues, thus facilitating interaction with the local community, and engagement with diverse and excellent art. Conference held in Rochester, NY, Nov 7-10, 2019. - -485 attendees, 70 panels/roundtables/workshops, 72 readings, 8 offiste events, over 500 titles featured in the bookfair
ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. Since its inception in 2015, the program has supported 23 translators working from Kazakh, Indonesian, Greek, Occitan, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Catalan, and French, with our non- language-specific mentorships preferentially awarded to translators working from underrepresented or underfunded languages. The Mentorship Program allows an emerging translator (someone who has published no more than one full-length work of translation) to begin a career as a literary translator with a more seasoned translator by their side, as they create a literary translation of high caliber.
ALTA awards five major prizes at the annual conference: the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose, for an exceptional book of translated literature published within the previous year; the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, for an outstanding work of Asian literature published within the previous year; the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), for an exceptional work of Italian prose in English translation; and the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation, given to an unpublished book-length manuscript of poetry in translation. We also offer the ALTA Travel Fellowships for emerging translators to attend the annual conference, including the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship for an emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language. -5 awards bestowed, 5 Travel Fellowships bestowed -A total of $25,000 in funds given to translators: (NTA in Poetry: $2,500; NTA in Prose: $2,500; Stryk: $5,000; IPTA: 2 x $5,000; Travel Fellowships: 5 x $1,000)
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| David Gramling | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Aviya Kushner | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Sebastian Schulman | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Mira Rosenthal | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Nancy Naomi Carlson | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Elizabeth Harris | At-Large | 2 | $0 |
| Aron Aji | Past President | 5 | $0 |
| Samantha Schnee | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Patrick Blaine | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Anne O Fisher | Vice President | 5 | $0 |
| Ellen Elias-Bursac | President | 10 | $0 |
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