Literature: FY2004 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Challenge America | Creativity | Heritage & Preservation | Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations and Artists | Panelists

Challenge America: Access to the Arts

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, an annual project featuring readings, discussions, and outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of The Writers Project at ACC)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$10,000
To support the expansion of the press's distribution list to include all titles published by Latin American Literary Review Press. Bilingual Review Press will mail its distribution catalog to more than 20,000 individuals and institutions.

Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the 21st annual Celebration of Black Writing, an eight-day festival in Philadelphia targeting African Americans. Potential authors include George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Albert Murray, Eloise Greenfield, Kristin Lattany, Sonia Sanchez, and Charles Fuller.

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the continued development, expansion, and promotion of Words Without Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international literature. The site features 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems, and novel excerpts drawn from approximately 20-25 languages.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African-American poets. Following the retreat, the foundation will publish an anthology of student work.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled Lit Mag Fairs, comprised of events designed to present literary magazines at reduced cost to communities across the country. In partnership with The Kenyon Review, the council will hold events in Atlanta, Ga.; Houston, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Denver, Colo.; Portland, Ore.; and Hudson, N.Y.

Daily Poetry Association, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
To support the enhancement of Poetry Daily's News, Reviews, and Special Features sections. Updated daily, these sections of the Web site will feature critical reviews of new books and a forum for discussion of poetry and related issues.

Gemini Series, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$7,000
To support the Storybook Project, a writing residency for incarcerated teens, and Words in Common, a one-day spoken-word festival. The festival will introduce the community to emerging writers and performance poets.

Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the Oregon Book Awards and Author Tour. Up to 30 winners and finalists will conduct readings at sites throughout the state.

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
To support a series of free literary programs throughout the state. Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance will offer readings, workshops, open mike nights, and updated literary consultation services for writers, readers, and educators.

Montana Committee for the Humanities
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support the Montana Festival of the Book. More than 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues in downtown Missoula, reaching an estimated audience of up to 5,000.

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to American-Indian reservations nationwide, and a summer writing camp for inner-city teens and adults.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support writing workshops, discussions, seminars, and the exchange of oral histories on the topic of work throughout underserved communities of Chicago. Stories and student writing will be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Ordinary Thought.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Targeted cities include Dallas, Los Angeles, Fresno, Philadelphia, Fort Collins, Minneapolis, Houston, Chicago, New York, Austin, and Portland, Oregon.

Poets & Writers, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the consortium project Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West. In partnership with the YMCA of Billings, Poets & Writers will bring literary events to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and northern California.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$5,000
To support the 17th annual Rutgers-Camden Writers' Conference, a free day of writing workshops for residents of Camden and South Jersey. Proposed workshop leaders include Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elizabeth Spires, Chang-Rae Lee, and Jonathan Galassi.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled The Writer's Studio, a radio show featuring interviews with established authors. Writer's Garret will partner with KERA Public Radio FM, where the show will be broadcast.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of educational and outreach programs for more than 4,500 community members. Writers & Books will offer readings, writing workshops, online classes, and a community-wide reading and discussion program entitled If All of Rochester Read the Same Book.

Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Inc.
Eureka Springs, AR
$5,000
To support readings and workshops throughout Arkansas with the colony's writers in residence. The colony will partner with senior centers, schools, museums, cultural centers, and social service agencies to reach an estimated audience of 4,500 in underserved communities.

YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour and the YMCA National Writers Community. The tour will link local writers with nationally recognized writers for readings in communities such as Detroit, Phoenix, Tampa, Syracuse, Cheyenne, and Billings.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$8,000
To support Tumblewords, a series of readings by contemporary writers in Billings and surrounding rural communities, and the High Plains BookFest, a three-day festival featuring readings and discussions with more than 75 writers.

Creativity

92nd Street Y (Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes, and live interviews. The center also will present the first American readings of new works of verse drama.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$24,000
To support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from three annual competitions. Selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

Antioch University (on behalf of Antioch Review)
Yellow Springs, OH
$10,000
To support publication and related expenses, including author payments, for special issues of the Antioch Review. Each issue will focus on a contemporary literary form: short fiction, poetry, and the essay.

Aspect, Inc. (Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of books by American and Chinese writers. Zephyr Press will market its Chinese titles to Asian bookstores and cultural centers, and add an audio component to its Web site featuring authors reading their work.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of Miko Kings by Choctaw author LeAnne Howe. Aunt Lute will coordinate an extensive eight-city tour for Ms. Howe coinciding with the broadcast of her one-hour special on the Choctaw nation on public television

Big River Association (River Styx) (on behalf of River Styx Magazine)
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of River Styx, St. Louis's oldest literary magazine. River Styx annually publishes the work of approximately 60 poets and 20 prose writers.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$40,000
To support production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Poets scheduled to be published include Lucille Clifton, Bill Knott, David Mura, and Lola Haskins.

Boise State University (on behalf of The Idaho Review)
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support the production and promotion of issues of The Idaho Review. The annual journal will be promoted through direct mail, a public reading, writing workshops, and a short story contest.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of AGNI. The magazine will launch a 10,000 piece direct mail campaign to readers of such publications as Poets & Writers and The American Poetry Review.

Brooklyn Public Library Foundation
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Brooklyn Authors for Brooklyn Readers series, featuring readings and interviews with WNYC radio talk show host Leonard Lopate. The library will make digital audio recordings of each program available on its Web site.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of Calyx, a journal of art and literature by women. The journal will increase honoraria to writers and artists, launch a direct mail subscription campaign, and coordinate a reading series for emerging Calyx authors.

CavanKerry Press, Ltd.
Fort Lee, NJ
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of first books of poetry, including one title in the press's LaurelBooks: The Literature of Illness Series. The press will distribute free books to seniors, prisons, schools, and the community of patients and caregivers.

Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
Seattle, WA
$12,500
To support Black to the Future: A Science Fiction Festival, featuring panels and workshops with leading African American science fiction writers. Scheduled participants include Walter Mosley, Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, John Ridley, Samuel Delany, and Nalo Hopkinson

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled writers include Lorenzo Thomas, Marjorie Welish, Eleni Sikelianos, U Sam Oeur, and Gilbert Sorrentino.

Colorado State University (on behalf of The Colorado Review)
Fort Collins, CO
$8,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of The Colorado Review. Published three times a year, the journal will advertise in such magazines as Poets & Writers, American Poetry Review, and the AWP Writer's Chronicle.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Authors include Ruth Stone, Marvin Bell, David Lee, Jane Miller, David Bottoms, and Cyrus Cassells.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of a special 25th issue of Creative Nonfiction, and a national writers' conference in Pittsburgh, to celebrate the journal's 10th anniversary. The special issue will feature a new format and writing by conference participants.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$45,000
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of contemporary, multicultural poetry and fiction. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings in bookstores, libraries, schools, and communities with large minority populations.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion, and related expenses including authors' fees, for issues of Fence. The magazine will advertise in journals such as Poets and Writers, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Poetry Flash.

Friends of Writers, Inc. (on behalf of Four Way Books)
Marshfield, VT
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry. Scheduled authors include Tina Chang, Noelle Kocot, Gary Lilley, and Jason Schneiderman.

Gettysburg College (on behalf of Gettysburg Review)
Gettysburg, PA
$15,000
To support an increase in payments to contributors and promotional expenses for the Gettysburg Review. A direct mail campaign on behalf of the literary journal will target 50,000 potential readers across the country.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include D.A. Powell, Fanny Howe, David Rivard, Albert Goldbarth, Carl Phillips, and Jorie Graham.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Performance Poetry Festival. The summer festival will bring together artists who combine theater and poetry to create lyrical monologues and experimental plays and films.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
$10,000
To support the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, featuring summer readings and workshops. Proposed poets include Martha Collins, Joan Joffe Hall, Grace Paley, Rafael Campo, and Major Jackson.

Hudson Review, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support the publication and promotion of a special issue of the The Hudson Review featuring writers new to the journal. The journal will send complimentary copies of the issue to publishers and literary agents.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free, three-day festival has featured readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Inprint will send brochures to more than 100 print and broadcast media groups and 6,500 households throughout Houston, and will place posters and postcards at bookstores, theaters, cafes, schools, libraries, and universities.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support outreach programs throughout the greater Buffalo area. Proposed programs include Poetry To Go and If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book.

Kenyon Review
Gambier, OH
$15,000
To support the publication and related expenses, including increased authors' fees, for issues of The Kenyon Review. The journal will expand its publication from three issues per year to four.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers. The program will feature The Mentor Series, which will connect nationally recognized writers with local writers through workshops and one-on-one instruction; and Talking Volumes, which will present recent original work by advanced writers to audiences throughout the upper Midwest.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$7,000
To support a day of readings and workshops with Pearl Cleage as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and residents in downtown Detroit.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Bill Holm, Dennis Sampson, Margaret Erhart, Joseph Bruchac, and Kathleen Dean Moore.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support readings, residencies, and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Marianne Baruch, Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Bei Dao, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Wakoski, and Adam Zagajewski.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$12,000
To support evaluation fees and publication costs for poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by a panel of distinguished poets, the five winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins Publishers, Louisiana State University Press, Coffee House Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin.

Other Voices, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support publication and related expenses, including increased authors' fees, for issues of Other Voices magazine. The journal will coordinate a special week of literary programming in conjunction with the 2004 Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago.

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$7,000
To support the publication and promotion of the online magazine's second annual print anthology. The anthology will include four theme issues: Spaces/Places, the Reciprocity Issue, the New Jersey Issue, and the Aesthetics and Technology Issue.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2004-05 and Spring 2005 issue will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Rain Taxi, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine has a current national circulation of 20,000 copies.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$30,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Authors will conduct readings and workshops around the country.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$40,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops at Texas A&M University and one-day workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.

Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the Texas Book Festival. The 2004 festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Jane Smiley, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Larry McMurtry.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Proposed artists include Rita Dove, Michael Palmer, Alberto Rios, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Sue Kwock Kim, Calvin Bedient, Patricia Smith, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of Manoa)
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support the publication, promotion, distribution, and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature work from Mindanao, the Filipino American community, French Polynesia, and Pacific Islanders living in the United States.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the publication and promotion of Spanish language editions of Arte Público's U.S. Latino literature for young adults. The press will sponsor author readings and distribute teacher guides that include background information, author biographies, analyses of major themes, and bibliographies for further reading.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award competitions. Launched in 1970, the awards are given to two emerging writers each year.

University of Mississippi Main Campus
(on behalf of Center for the Study of Southern Culture)
University, MS
$10,000
To support the Oxford Conference for the Book. Scheduled participants include Barry Hannah, Silas House, Lee Smith, Beth Ann Fennelly, Margaret McMullan, Jewel Parker Rhodes, and William Jay Smith.

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$30,000
To support publication, promotion, and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its Web site, increase authors' fees, and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of Arabic fiction in translation. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies will publish the work of Syrian author Walid Ikhlassi; Iraqi author Buthayna al-Nassiri; and Samir Naqqash, a Jewish author from Iraq who lives in Israel and writes in Arabic.

White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$35,000
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Publishing Project. White Pine will market the series through targeted mailings and print ads, and will continue to upgrade its Web site to include book excerpts, reviews, and study guides.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$10,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on Women in War and Peace.

Heritage & Preservation

Americas Society, Inc. (on behalf of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a project featuring a special issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas focusing on contemporary Latin American writers. The Americas Society also will present bilingual readings, panels, and discussions.

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$30,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Ivan Angelo, Nathalie Sarraute, Viktor Shklovsky, Aidan Higgins, and Camilo Jose Cela.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the restoration and promotion of books by U.S. women as part of the press's Contemporary Classics Series. Authors whose works will be brought back into print include Shelley Ayame, Nishimura Ota, Denise Chavez, Mary Deasy, Antonia Pola, Jessamyn West, and Paule Marshall.

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of books by Latin American writers. Proposed titles include The Chronicle of San Gabriel by Peruvian writer Julio Ramn Ribeyro and the first unabridged translation of Edmundo Desnoes' Memories of Underdevelopment.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the preservation and dissemination of the entire archive of Paris Review interviews online, free of charge. The journal will present nearly 300 interviews conducted since 1953 with writers whose work has defined the literary landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Poetry House Showcase, an exhibit and series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. The showcase will feature panel discussions, readings, and publication of an online directory of American poetry books.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will develop and implement standardized procedures for digitizing, storing, and cataloging its audio and video recordings.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the preservation and enhancement of Poetry Breaks, a collection of videotape recordings of contemporary poets reading their own work. Poets featured on the tapes include Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Martin Espada, Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Cyrus Cassells, and Ruth Stone.

Literature Fellowships

Literature Fellowships (Prose)

The 2004 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers of prose, encouraging the production of new work by affording these writers the time and means to write. Each literature fellow receives a $20,000 award.

Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects in Prose

Alison Anderson
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support the translation from French of the work of Christian Bobin. Born in 1951, Bobin has published more than 30 short works, including a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi and several books for children. Alison Anderson will translate several works including Une petite robe de fête, a collection of short pieces ranging in themes from nostalgia for lost love to the experience of readers and unpublished writers.

Anderson's translations include Let Me Survive by Louise Longo, Onitsha by JMG Le Clézio, and History of the Surrealist Movement by Gérard Durozoi.

Danuta Borchardt
Gloucester, MA
$20,000
To support the retranslation from Polish of the novel Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz. Born in Poland in 1904, Gombrowicz is one of the great novelists of the 20th century. He is the author of six books of fiction and three plays, which use classical models of farce and the grotesque to convey larger ideas of the times. Cosmos, his last novel, examines how an individual attempts to create a personal cosmos by pegging his imaginations against the complexities of the real world. Previous translations were done from French and German translations, and this will be the first taken directly into English from Polish.

Danuta Borchardt was born in Poland and lived in England and Ireland before she moved to Boston in 1959 to work as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She won the 2001 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association for her translation of Gombrowicz's novel Ferdydurke.

Erdag Goknar
Durham, NC
$10,000
To support the translation from Turkish of the novel The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. Born in 1952, Pamuk is the author of seven novels, all of which explore the formation of cultural identity, nationalism, and the existing contemporary Turkish experience on the periphery of Europe. The protagonist of The Museum of Innocence comes from an upper-class Istanbul family who, after two failed relationships, goes on an obsessive journey in search of places and objects that remind him of his lost loves and that, once assembled, constitute the bulk of a museum of his obsessions.

Erdag Goknar currently is Visiting Assistant Professor of Turkish Language and Culture at Duke University. His translations include Pamuk's Earth and Ashes and My Name is Red.

Howard C. Goldblatt
South Bend, IN
$20,000
To support the translation from Chinese of the novel My Life as Emperor by Su Tong. Born in 1963, Su Tong is the author of six novels, short stories, and a novella, Raise the Red Lantern, for which he is best known in the United States. Narrated by a former child emperor, My Life as Emperor provides a chilling glimpse of the decadence of imperial China.

Howard Goldblatt currently is a research professor at University of Notre Dame. He has taught Chinese at San Francisco State University and University of Colorado, and has translated more than 25 books of Chinese literature, including Liu Heng's Black Snow and Chu Tien-wen's Notes of a Decadent Man.

Prasenjit Gupta
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support the translation of a selection of short stories of Bengali writer Ashapurna Debi. Widely regarded as one of India's leading literary figures, Ashapurna Debi (1909-95) explored the lives of Bengali society's middle class. Debi was born in North Calcutta and never attended school. However, after the publication of her first short story at age 13, she went on to publish dozens of novels, short stories, and children's books over her 70-year writing career. In 1978, she received India's highest literary honor, the Gyanpeeth Award. Prasenjit Gupta will translate about 20 short stories that were selected by Debi in a longer collection entitled Self-selected Best Stories.

Gupta's translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Exchanges, and Indian Literature. He won the Katha-British Council Contest in Translation in 1997.

Clifford E. Landers
Naples, FL
$10,000
To support the translation from Portuguese of a selection of short stories by Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca. Born in 1925, Fonseca began his prolific writing career at the age of 40, following careers as a high-ranking police officer and a power company executive. Often focusing on alienation and victimization in Brazilian society, Fonseca's oeuvre includes more than 100 short stories.

Clifford E. Landers has translated 14 novels, including two novels by Fonseca, Bufo & Spallanzani and The Lost Manuscript, as well as Marcos Rey's Memoirs of a Gigolo, Jorge Amado's The Golden Harvest, and Paulo Coelho's The Fifth Mountain.

Tiina K. Nunnally
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support the translation from Norwegian of Sigrid Undset's first novel, Mrs. Marta Oulie, and a selection of short stories written prior to 1918. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928, Sigrid Undset is best known for her medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter. Her early work, much of which has never been translated into English, depicts the lives of poor and middle-class urban women of Norway at the turn of the century.

Tiina Nunnally is executive editor of Fjord Press. She has translated such works as Undset's novel Jenny and the trilogy of novels comprising Kristin Lavransdatter, and Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow.

Robert Rudder
Claremont, CA
$10,000
To support the translation from Spanish of the novel Lo prohibido by Benito Pérez Galdós. Robert Rudder will collaborate with Gloria Arjona. Born in 1843, Galdos wrote 77 novels, 21 works for the theater, and several volumes of literary criticism and personal essays, placing him second only to Cervantes among Spain's greatest novelists. His novel Lo prohibido, exploring the moral corruption of the Spanish bourgeoisie, has never been translated into English.

Rudder's translations include Galdós's Nazarin, Rosario Castellanos's City of Kings, Francisco Rojas Gonzalez's Medicine Man, and Cristina Peri Rossi's Solitaire of Love.

Laima Sruoginis
Peaks Island, ME
$10,000
To support the translation from Lithuanian of personal essays, a memoir and fiction by Vanda Juknaite. Born in 1949 in a remote village along the Lithuanian/Latvian border, Juknaite received the Lithuanian National Prize for Literature in 2002. Her memoir is her first publication since 1995's novella Land of Glass. During this time, Juknaite disappeared from the literary scene to establish and run a summer camp for street children. Laima Sruoginis will translate portions of Land of Glass, Juknaite's memoir, selections from her novel The Funeral, and personal essays.

Sruoginis will soon have published a new anthology, The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose, by Columbia University Press. She currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine.

Peter Constantine
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the translation from Greek of selected works by Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greece's foremost 19th-century prose writer. Papadiamantis (1851-1911) wrote more than 200 novellas and short stories, and numerous novels including his most famous work, The Murderess. Woven into his stories are vestiges of myth and ancient lore and the dour superstitions that governed the daily life of Greek peasants, particularly the plight of Greek women.

Peter Constantine is the translator of Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, The Undiscovered Chekhov - Thirty-Eight New Stories, and The Complete Works of Isaac Babel. He currently is a senior editor for the journal Conjunctions.

Alyson Waters
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the translation from French of Vassilis Alexakis's most recent novel, Foreign Words. Born and raised in Greece, Alexakis writes much of his work in French, having moved to Paris in his twenties. His more than eight novels and several works of short fiction employ elements of his life to explore the relationship between identity and language, memory and the self, and exile, loss, love, and death. Foreign Words follows the narrator on a journey from Paris to Greece, where he grew up and his father just died, then to the Central African Republic where he undertakes the learning of the language Sango in an attempt for the narrator to fully meditate on language and loss.

Alyson Waters is currently the managing editor of Yale French Studies and a lecturer in the French Department at Yale University. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, and Queens College, and her translations include Tzvetan Todorov's The Morals of History.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Associated Writing Programs
Fairfax, VA
$65,000
To support the production, printing, and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle and the AWP Job List, continued development of the AWP Web site, and the 2005 AWP Conference in Vancouver, Canada. AWP will promote the publications and annual conference through a 200,000-piece direct mail campaign.

Council of Literary Magazines
New York, NY
$45,000
To support new and enhanced services for independent literary publishers. Scheduled activities include an interactive Web site, a national conference, and technical assistance workshops.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of issues of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided geographically, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, and is distributed to 22,000 readers nationwide.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the continued development and promotion of the Poets & Writers's Web site. Other project activities will include seminars, panels, lectures, and pamphlets providing writers with practical information on the business of writing.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506