Provides funding for translators wishing to stay in France in order to translate French works in the fields of literature or humanities.

The translator must be working on a commissioned translation and have a contract with a publisher. Grants are awarded by the Directeur du livre after consultation with a committee of translators, publishers and Ministry representatives. This committee meets during the last quarter of each calendar year. Applications should be sent to the Direction du Livre through the Attaché du Livre (French Embassy)

The Residency for Literary translators is a brand new programme launched jointly by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Villa Gillet in 2005. It provides a six-week residency to translators wishing to work on a translation from the French. The translator will be staying at Villa Gillet, Les Subsistances, in Lyons, and will take part in the city's cultural life.

To launch the programme, the Director of Villa Gillet is looking for experienced literary translators able to participate in public events and run workshops.
The translator must not be working on a commissionned translation, the aim of the residency being to allow translators to focus on French works that have not been bought by a British or an American publisher yet.
Grants are awarded by the literary attaché and the director of the translation program of the Pen American Center. The program will start with a first residency as soon as November 2005.
For more information on Villa Gillet: www.villagillet.net

Provides grants to support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English or have appeared only in an egregiously flawed translation. Fund seeks to encourage translators to undertake projects they might not otherwise have had the means to attempt. The amount of the award will vary from $2,000 to $10,000.

Submissions will be judged by a jury of prominent translators, writers, and editors on the quality of the original work and the quality of the translation. In cases of equal merit, priority will be given to underrepresented languages and authors and to works that are previously untranslated.