2023 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA)

The 2023 and second edition of the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA) will recognize the translations into English of literary prose works 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.

This year, Lisa Dillman, Tiago Miller, and Gary Racz will be part of the jury.

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 in the previous calendar year (for example, to be eligible for the 2022 awards cycle, the book must have been published in 2021).
• Only prose books (literary fiction and nonfiction) are eligible.

Timeline

• January 17: Submissions open.
• April 17: Submissions close.
• September: Shortlist announced
• November 2023: Winner announced at ALTA46 conference.

The deadline for nominating books published in 2022 is April 17, 2023, 11:59pm 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 April 17, 2023.

For more information, please contact Communications and Awards Manager Rachael Daum at [email protected].

Submission

1. Complete the entry form online.
2. 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.