Other Organizations & Institutions

These are organizations and institutions related to literary translation in the United States:

American Translators Association: Membership organization for professional translators and interpreters.

The American Literary Translators Association: Membership organization for literary translators.

Boston University Translation Seminar: Includes a lecture series open to the public and videos of past lectures.

The following organizations include sections or services for literary translators, but do not consider translation their main focus:

The Authors Guild: Advocates for the rights of writers by supporting free speech, fair contracts, and copyright.

PEN America: Offers a translation model contract and the yearly PEN/Heim translation grants.

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) welcomes translators of children’s literature.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) hosts a huge annual conference with translation panels organized by ALTA and a book fair attended by many publishers of translation.

Outside the United States:

Emerging Translators Network (ETN): a forum and support network for early-career literary translators working primarily into English; started in the UK but open to translators anywhere.

Society of Authors Translators Association (UK): The Translators Association (TA) provides a source of expert advice for individual literary translators and is also a collective voice representing the profession as a whole.