A New Prize From Three Publishers Will Champion Poetry In Translation.

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing, and New Directions are teaming up to motorboat The Poetry successful Translation Prize, a caller biennial grant for a poesy postulation translated into English.

The inaugural information of submissions opens connected July 15th, and immoderate surviving writer who useful successful a connection different than English is eligible to submit. The winning writer and translator will divided a $5,000 beforehand earlier a 2027 publication successful North America by New Directions, successful nan UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo, and successful Australia and New Zealand by Giramondo.

This isn’t nan first clip these 3 publishers person teamed up for an award. Since 2020, they’ve tally nan Novel Prize, a biennial grant for a book-length activity of literate fabrication successful English. And Fitzcarraldo gives retired an yearly Essay Prize for unpublished authors.

These erstwhile prizes were a guideline for nan caller Poetry successful Translation Prize, said Fitzcarraldo poesy editor Rachael Allen: “Using nan exemplary of nan already established Novel and Essay prizes, we wanted to unfastened our doors to caller poesy successful translator to springiness abstraction and summation vulnerability to poetries we whitethorn not beryllium alert of.”

Nick Tapper, subordinate patient astatine Giramondo, said nan caller Poetry successful Translation prize “foregrounds nan basal domiciled of translator successful our literature” and “will bring caller readers to poets whose activity deserves wide and sustained attention.”

Keep an oculus retired for Prize’s first shortlist precocious this year, pinch a victor to beryllium announced successful January 2026!