Latest Translation Fund grants awarded
18 February 2021
The latest round of the Publishing Scotland Translation Fund
(round 2 of 2020/21) has awarded a total of £23,000 to 15
international publishers from 10 countries towards the translation
of Scottish writers.
This fund has been running for 6 years and is administered by
Publishing Scotland, the trade body for the industry, and supported
by Creative Scotland.
Grants were awarded for works by Scottish authors to be
translated into Arabic, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian and Turkish. Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart was a popular choice with applicants.
The awards went to:
- Argument Verlag GmbH (Germany) for German edition
of The Less Dead by Denise Mina (Harvill Secker,
2020)
- Can Publishing (Turkey) for the Turkish edition
of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador,
2020)
- Cicero, Gyldendal (Denmark) for the Danish edition
of Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
- Éditions Hashtag (Canada) for the French edition
of Nasty Women by various authors (404 Ink,
2017)
- Double Nickels (Italy) for the Italian edition of For
the Good Times by David Keenan (Faber & Faber,
2019)
- Edizioni Kolibris (Italy) for the Italian edition
of Farm by the Shore by Thomas A Clark
(Carcanet, 2017)
- Guggolz Verlag (Germany) for the German edition
of Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (first
published in 1933)
- IPC Media (Serbia) for the Serbian edition of Shuggie
Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, 2020)
- Magvető Publishing (Hungary) for the Hungarian edition
of Winter by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton,
2018)
- New Human Publisher (Turkey) for the Turkish edition
of Of Dogs and Men by John Barrington (Luath
Press, 2013)
- Nie Wiem (Italy) for the Italian edition of A
Choosing by Liz Lochhead (Polygon, 2011)
- PNV Publikacii DOOEL Skopje (North Macedonia) for the
Macedonian edition of The World's Wife by Carol
Ann Duffy (Picador, 2017)
- PRH (Portugal) for the Portuguese edition of Shuggie
Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, 2020)
- Sefsafa Culture & Publishing (Egypt) for the of Arabic
edition of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
(Picador, 2020)
- ŠTRIK DOO (Serbia) for the Serbian edition
of Summer by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton,
2020)
There will be another round of funding later in the year.
For more informaton about the Fund and past awards, see our Translation
pages.