Previous Translator Bursary Awards

2010 Translation Bursary Recipients

Yao Yuan, Chinese, Antarctica, by Claire Keegan

Bailin Fang, Chinese, Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

Bai Li, Chinese, Mothers and Sons, by Colm Tóibín

Jorge Salvetti, Spanish (Argentina), Collected Poems, by Michael Hartnett

Jorge Fondebrider, Spanish (Argentina), Selected Poems, by Moya Cannon

Piotr Sommer, Polish, Selected Poems, by Michael Longley

Jerzy Jarniewicz, Polish, poetry of Paula Meehan, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly, Leontia Flynn

Renata Sentkas, Polish, Selected Poems, by Louis MacNiece

 

2009 Translation Bursary Recipients

Ganesan Kuppuswamy, Tamil (India), John Banville, The Sea

Zhang Kun, Chinese, Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

Sunandan Roy Chowdhury, Bengali (India), Brian O'Conchubhair (ed.), Contemporary Short Stories of the Irish Language

Li Yuan, Chinese, Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats

András Imreh, Hungarian, Seamus Heaney, Selected Poetry

Margitt Lehbert, German, Derek Mahon, Selected Poetry

Federica Aceto, Italian, Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

Ten bursaries were awarded in 2007 to the translators of works of drama by Brian Friel, Marina Carr, John Broderick, W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge, the poetry of Eavan Boland, short stories by Eugene McCabe, and the prose of Benjamin Black, Ciaran Carson and Neil Jordan. The recipients’ home territories included Argentina, Brazil, China, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Spain. 

In 2006, bursaries were awarded to seven translators from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and the Czech Republic. The nature of the works being translated also varied widely, covering both prose and short stories by John McGahern, Brian Friel’s plays, novels by John Banville and Colm Tóibín, and an anthology of Irish poetry.

In 2005 these awards were received by four literary translators from Brazil and Argentina who worked on a wide range of translations of Irish writing including poetry by Peter Sirr, Louis MacNeice, Pádraig Daly, Seán Ó Riordáin and an anthology of poetry of conflict by Northern Irish poets.