{"id":258396,"date":"2007-12-05T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/12\/05\/2008-susan-sontag-prize-for-translation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:50","slug":"2008-susan-sontag-prize-for-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/12\/05\/2008-susan-sontag-prize-for-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We actually posted about the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation back before Three Percent went live, but with the deadline approaching, I think it&#8217;s worth bringing up again, especially since it&#8217;s such a cool prize.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first activities of the newly-established <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susansontag.com\">Susan Sontag Foundation<\/a>, this Prize for Translation will be an annual award of $5,000 given to a young translator. This year&#8217;s prize is for the best proposal for a translation from German into English of a work of fiction by a living writer, but in future years the focus will rotate among major European and Asian languages.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really unique about this award is that it will be given to &#8220;a university undergraduate or graduate student under the age of 30.&#8221; It&#8217;s great that such a sizable award will be given out to young translators, and hopefully this will encourage more students to study and become involved in literary translation. <\/p>\n<p>The deadline for applying is January 30, 2008, and for anyone interested in applying, a pdf of the application can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susansontag.com\/Prize_Application.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And just to clarify, the application consists of submitting a proposal and a five page sample. The winner will be announced in March, and it&#8217;s expected that he\/she will be able to finish the translation by October 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We actually posted about the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation back before Three Percent went live, but with the deadline approaching, I think it&#8217;s worth bringing up again, especially since it&#8217;s such a cool prize. One of the first activities of the newly-established Susan Sontag Foundation, this Prize for Translation will be an annual award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,8646,576],"class_list":["post-258396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-susan-sontag-foundation","tag-translation-prize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360646,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258396\/revisions\/360646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}