Applicant Eligibility

Individual translators who meet the publication requirements that are listed below are eligible to apply. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. See "How to Prepare and Submit an Application"" for the documentation that is required to demonstrate eligibility. Ineligible applications will be rejected without panel review.

An individual may submit only one application for FY 2011 funding. You may not apply for both a Translation Project under this deadline (January 7, 2010) and a Creative Writing Fellowship under the March 2010 deadline (when fellowships in poetry are offered). See Creative Writing Fellowships for more information.

You are not eligible to apply if you have received three or more Creative Writing or Translation Fellowships (in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, belles-lettres, or for translation) from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, you may not apply in Translation if you have received any Arts Endowment Creative Writing or Translation Fellowship on or after October 1, 2006 (FY 2007).

Former grantees must have submitted acceptable Final Report packages by the due date(s) for all Arts Endowment award(s) previously received.

You are eligible to apply if you, alone or in collaboration, have:

• Published a total of at least 20 pages of translations of creative literature into English in literary magazines, anthologies, or books; or

• Published a translation into English of a novel or a volume of at least 20 pages of fiction, poetry, drama, or belles-lettres (creative nonfiction, criticism, and essays); or

• Translated into English at least one full-length play that has been presented or produced by a professional theater company.

This publication or production must have taken place between January 1, 1995, and January 7, 2010.

You must meet the eligibility requirements by the deadline date. Please note that pre-publication materials, such as galleys, proofs, and advance reader's copies, do not qualify as eligible publications.

Applicants may use online publications to establish up to fifty percent of their eligibility, provided that such publications have competitive selection processes and stated editorial policies.

You may not use vanity press publication or self-publication (including work that has appeared in a publication for which you are the editor, publisher, or staff) to meet the eligibility requirements. For the purposes of this category, a vanity press is defined as one that does any of the following: requires individual writers to pay for part or all of the publication costs; asks writers to buy or sell copies of the publication; publishes the work of anyone who subscribes to the publication or joins the organization through membership fees; publishes the work of anyone who buys an advertisement in the publication; publishes work without competitive selection; or publishes work without professional editing.

Copyright Information

You must include with your application written permission from the copyright holder that grants you the right to translate the work specified in your application. (We do not require that you secure the right to publish.) If the work resides in the public domain, you should state that in Attachment 8. See "How to Prepare and Submit an Application."

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