MCLC: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Lucas Klein <LRKlein at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject: Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
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Source: American Literary Translators Association:
http://www.utdallas.edu/alta/about/lucien-stryk/stryk-submission-guidelines

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) invites publishers
and translators to nominate book-length translations into English of Asian
poetry or source texts from (but not commentaries on) Zen Buddhism.
Languages eligible are Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. The winning translator will be announced in the fall
of each year and receive a $5,000 award.

The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, which was inaugurated in 2009,
recognizes the importance of Asian translation for international
literature and promotes the translation of Asian works into English. Stryk
is an internationally acclaimed translator of Japanese and Chinese Zen
poetry, renowned Zen poet himself, and former professor of English at
Northern Illinois University.

To be eligible for the prize in a given year, works must have been
published in the previous calendar year. Submissions will be judged
according to the literary significance of the original and the success of
the translation in recreating the literary artistry of the original. While
the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize is primarily intended to
recognize the translation of contemporary works, retranslations or
first-time translations of important older works will also be seriously
considered. Publishers or translators should send with each entry a letter
of nomination and three copies of the translated work to:

American Literary Translators Association
Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize
c/o The University of Texas at Dallas
School of Arts & Humanities JO51
800 West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

The deadline for submissions is May 15 every year for works published in
the previous calendar year.

For books chosen by the jury as finalists, publishers will be asked to
provide the original-language text; any finalist for which no
original-language text is provided will be excluded from further
consideration.

To learn more about Lucien Stryk visit Poetry Poetry
(http://www.poetrypoetry.com/Features/LucienStryk/LucienStryk.html).

For more information, please contact Maria Suarez at
maria.suarez at utdallas.edu.