PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants
From PEN America
DeadlineYearly, date to confirmCheck the funder's page for the next date.
Grants to help translate book-length fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction into English.
- Amount
- $2,000
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Anywhere (no residency needed)
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- Not stated
- Kind
- Grant
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What is offered
Money to you
- Over the 24 years of its existence, the Fund has given grants of $2,000–$4,000 to 270 translations from over 50 languages, including Armenian, Basque, Estonian, Farsi, Finland-Swedish, Lithuanian and Mongolian, as well as French, Spanish,...
- Each project will receive a grant of $4,000 to support the translation’s completion.
In the funder's words, from their page, read September 26, 2026.
Eligibility
Translators of any nationality; US residency or citizenship not required; up to two translators per manuscript.
What to send
Sample translation; publisher interest
Not yet checked against the funder's page.
Source: https://pen.org/literary-grants/pen-heim-grants/ (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 24, 2026.
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