BL Translators' 2020

Dream Loaf
Join us for a special week of free programming from June 9 to 14 that includes a curated selection of lectures and readings pulled from archives along with some live events. Click here to see the Schedule.

Coronavirus Information Update
Middlebury College has announced the cancellation of the BL Environmental and BL Translators’ Conferences that were scheduled to take place in June. Read Director Jennifer Grotz’s letter to the Junes community here and see Bread Loaf’s COVID-19 FAQ for more information.

Interviews

Click here to read an interview by Open Letter’s Chad W. Post with Bread Loafer Katie Whittemore about her forthcoming translations and her experience attending last year’s Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Bread Loafers Catherine Nelson and Jeanne Bonner for receiving PEN grants for their translations!

Catherine Nelson received a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation from the Spanish of Tea Rooms: Working Women by Luisa Carnés, and Jeanne Bonner received the 2018 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature for her translation of A Walk in the Shadows by Mariateresa Di Lascia.

Participant Comments

"Since our group had nine translators working from six languages, we learned about translation issues in a variety of source languages outside our own, and each piece we discussed brought insights about a particular culture."
– Melissa Bowers
Seattle, Washington

"What I got out of this conference has been well beyond what I could have imagined. Most importantly, perhaps, I left with the beginnings of an overall conception of a method that works for me and the resources to begin plying this craft and honing my skills to accomplish what I have been envisioning doing for years."
- Darren-Jurmé Allumier
Milwaukee, WI

Informal reading on the porch of Bread Loaf Inn

Contact Information

Bread Loaf Conferences
Attn: Translators’ Conference
204 College Street
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Phone: 802-443-5286
Fax: 802-443-2087
Email: blt@middlebury.edu

CONTACT INFORMATION

Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences
204 College Street
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Phone: 802-443-5286
Fax: 802-443-2087
Email: blwc@middlebury.edu