2025 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA)
The 2025 and fourth edition of the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA) will honor translations into English of literary prose works originally written by authors of Spanish nationality.
The Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), inaugurated in 2022, is offered by the American Literary Translators Association in conjunction with the Spain-USA Foundation.
The award recognizes translations into English of literary prose works written originally by authors of Spanish (Spain) nationality. The source language of the original text may be Spanish, Catalan, Basque, or Galician. The author need not be living for the work to be eligible for the prize.
The winner of the SUFTA will be recognized, alongside the other prizes administered by ALTA, at the Awards Ceremony held at the annual ALTA conference, and will be awarded a $5,000 prize. The publisher of the winning book will be asked to send two (2) copies of the title to ALTA.
Eligibility
- Submissions may be made by publishers OR translators for this prize.
- The book must be a translation from Spanish, Catalan, Basque, or Galician into English, and by an author of Spanish (Spain) nationality.
- The book may be translated by a translator based anywhere in the world, individually or in a team of up to, but not exceeding, four (4) co-translators.
- The book must have been published in the United States by a U.S.- or Canada-based press in the previous calendar year (for example, to be eligible for the 2025 awards cycle, the book must have been published in 2024).
- Only prose books (literary fiction and nonfiction) are eligible.
Timeline
- January 13: Submissions open.
- March 17: Submissions close.
- Mid-September: Shortlist announced.
- Early November: Winner announced at ALTA48 conference.
The deadline for nominating books published in 2024 is March 17, 2025, 11:59 pm PT. Upon completion of the submission, publishers will receive instructions for mailing print copies of submitted titles to those judges who request them. The postmark deadline for mailing hard copies is March 18, 2025.
Submission
- Complete the entry form online.
- Send hard copies of the book(s) submitted to the judges requesting them. Upon completion of the submission, publishers will receive instructions for mailing print copies of submitted titles to those judges who request them.
Please direct any questions to Communications and Awards Manager Rachael Daum at [email protected].