The Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles (TECO-LA) continues its partnership with the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) to present this year’s “Emerging Translator Mentorship: Literature from Taiwan” program. This annual program aims to nurture English translators and enhance the publication of Taiwanese literature through selecting one emerging translator to receive mentoring from an experienced translator on a project. Online applications will be accepted until November 30, 2025. Translators who have not published more than one full-length of translated work are eligible to apply.
The Taiwan Academy is delighted to invite Lin King, the translator of Yang Shuang-Zi’s novel “Taiwan Travelogue” (Graywolf, 2024) and winner of the 2024 U.S. National Book Award for translated literature, to serve as the mentor in the coming year. The Ministry of Culture will provide support to the selected translator to work with the mentor for a nine-month period starting in February 2026. The selected translator will have the opportunity to participate in the ALTA annual conference in the fall of 2026 (Portland, OR), facilitating valuable networking connections with publishers.
Founded in 1978, ALTA is a U.S.-based organization dedicated exclusively to literary translation. Initiated in 2015, the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program was designed to foster a strong and collaborative relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a translation project, which has supported 90 translators working from 30 languages. Since the Taiwan Academy commenced this project in 2020, the title “Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise,” translated by Jenna Tang, has been successfully published with several short stories printed on literature journals.
For more information or to apply, please visit: https://literarytranslators.org/2026-alta-emerging-translator-mentorship-program-open-for-applications/