Publishing Scotland Translation Fund makes 12 awards to international publishers
20 February 2020
The Publishing Scotland Translation Fund has once again awarded
international publishers funding toward the translation of Scottish
writers.
This fund has been running for 5 years and is administered by
Publishing Scotland, the trade body for the industry, and supported
by Creative Scotland. The panel looks for contemporary authors,
strong back-list and publisher experience, a good marketing plan,
acceptable budget and of course a passion for the title and author
chosen.
In this the second round of the fund, we are delighted to have
given grants (totalling over £15k) to 12 publishers from 11
countries to help them publish works by Scottish writers. The
mix of genre and writing style helps promote a range of Scottish
talent to a wider international audience.
The round 2 grants were awarded for works to be published in
Czech, Dutch, German, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish,
Turkish and Ukrainian:
- Argument Verlag mit Ariadne (Germany) for the German edition
of Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina (Orion,
2013)
- Bokförlaget Atlas (Sweden) for the Swedish edition
of Spring by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton,
2019)
- Dybbuk Publishing house (Czech Republic) for the Czech edition
of Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
(Profile Books, 2019)
- Ediciones Godot + Feria de Editores (Argentina) for the Spanish
edition of Incandescent by Sarah Levin
(Saraband, 2019)
- Editora Morro Branco (Brazil) for the Portuguese edition
of The Player of Games by Iain Banks (Orbit,
1989)
- Edizioni Ensemble (Italy) for the Italian edition
of Quines by Gerda Stevenson (Luath Press,
2018)
- Edizioni SUR (Italy) for the Italian edition
of Spring by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton,
2019)
- LLC Vydavnytstvo "Navchalna Knyha - Bohdan" (Ukraine) for the
Ukrainian edition of Mayhem & Death by Helen
McClory (404 Ink, 2018)
- New Human (Turkey) for the Turkish edition
of Barnhill by Norman Bissell (Luath Press,
2019)
- Singel Uitgeverijen (The Netherlands) for the Dutch edition
of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (Tinder Press,
2020)
- Sulakauri Publishing (Georgia) for the Georgian edition
of Autumn by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton,
2017)
- Vakxikon Media & Publishing Group (Greece) for a bi-lingual
anthology of young Scottish poets.
This is the final round of the fund for this financial year,
another one will be launched in the summer of 2020. For more
information on titles previously supported by the fund, see Translation.