grant funding for translations - in Canada

[Anna Chilewska]

Dear Colleagues,
A few of you have asked me to share my (however limited) knowledge of 
grant funding for translations in Canada. So here it is:

When my colleague and I first tried to publish a translation, we have 
contacted the following organizations:

- Canada Council for the Arts
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/
(information about publishing grants can be found at this link:
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/writing/of127227340679531250.htm)

- Research Council of Canada
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/home_e.asp

and The Association of Canadian Publishers		 
http://www.publishers.ca/publishing-writing-grants.htm

Most of these organizations have very strick guidelines in terms of who 
can and who cannot apply. We were turned down by all. Our next step was 
to start looking directly into Congresses and Cultural Associations 
native to the languages from which we were translating. We got lucky 
with those. So my advise is to look into Russian Congress or 
Canadian-Russian Culture Association (if there is such in your area) 
for help in financing translations from or into Russian. Another 
possibility is to contact publishers directly as there are a few who 
are interested in publishing translated works. A legthy list can be 
easily located on the Internet.

Overall, translations are very difficult to publish, much less finance 
in this country (unless they are "Harry Potter" or something similar). 
I hope this helps a little bit.
Best regards,
Anna

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