Deadline: 31-Dec-21
The New India Foundation is introducing Translation Fellowships dedicated to bringing non-fiction works from Indian languages to English.
In pursuit of fulfilling the objectives of the NIF to foster scholarship around Independent India and to provide a wider audience for Indian-language texts, 3 Translation Fellowships will be awarded from across 10 languages for the research and translation of non-fiction texts published from 1850 onwards.
The New India Foundation’s focus on translating historical texts from Indian languages into English hopes to foster comparative literature about different states and streams of progress. This venture aims to create an expansive cultural reach for works which have thus far been confined to those who understand the original language of their composition.
The Fellowship has no constraints regarding the genre or style of the original text, the nationality of the translator, or the ideology of the material.
In each round of the NIF Translation Fellowships, they will alternate languages to ensure that they support a pan-Indian representation of linguistic diversity.
Funding Information
Amount: INR 6 lakhs for each fellow
Languages
Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Tamil and Urdu.
For more information, visit https://www.newindiafoundation.org/nif-translation-fellowship