Bread Loaf Conferences

BL Translators' 2019

Dates:
May 31 - June 6, 2019

Location:
Ripton, Vermont

Application Period:
October 15, 2018 - February 15, 2019

Auditor spots are still available - Click here to apply.

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

Congratulations to Bread Loafers Amina Gautier and Joan Silber for winning 
the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Awards and to finalists Hernán Diaz and 
Samantha Hunt!

Amina Gautier won the 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the 
Short Story and Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 
her novel Improvement. Hernán Diaz (In The Distance) and Samantha 
Hunt (The Dark Dark) were included on the 2018 finalist list for the 
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Tiphanie Yanique Interview:

Congratulations to Bread Loaf Faculty Member Sigrid Nunez for Winning the 2018 National   
Book Award in Fiction for The Friend and to the Following Faculty, Guests, 
and Participants who were included on the National Book Award Longlists:

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man; Lauren Groff, Florida; Terrance Hayes,
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin; Tayari Jones, An 
American Marriage; Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of; Rebecca Solnit,
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays); 
Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected; and Jenny Xie, Eye Level.

Reading & Lecture Audio Recordings 
Click on the link below to listen to BL Environmental,
BL Translators', and BL Writers' readings and lectures:

Bread Loaf Reading & Lecture Recordings