Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Explore the outstanding work of our talented Emerging Translators, graduates of the 2024-25 mentorship programme. Their translations break new ground, spotlighting languages and literatures that are often underrepresented in English.

• Imane Amraoui (Mentee: Arabic, mentored by Sawad Hussain)
• Jilly Bong (Mentee: Chinese, mentored by Jeremy Tiang)
• Brad Harmon (Mentee: Faroese, mentored by Marita Thomsen)
• Ecre Karadag (Mentee: Japanese, mentored by Polly Barton)
• Kasia Laganowska (Mentee: Polish, mentored by Annie Rutherford)
• Asher Maria (Mentee: Lithuanian, mentored by Kotryna Garanasvili)
• Fiona Spencer-Piacentini (Mentee: Italian, mentored by Elena Pala)
• Sarah K. H. Yoo (Mentee: Korean, mentored by Clare Richards)
• Monika Zaleska (Mentee: Polish, mentored by Sean Gasper Bye)

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The Emerging Translator Mentorships Programme is supported by Arts Council England, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda University, the Literary Translation Institute of Korea, the Polish Cultural Institute, the National Arts Council Singapore, FarLit, Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Society of Authors.

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