[MGSA-L] MGSA Translation Contest rules of submission and deadline reminder

[Artemis Leontis]

Please circulate this and the website link
http://mgsa.org/Prizes/Constant.html freely on other lists.

Rules of submission are listed below.

Remember that the deadline is next Monday, April 15.  Submissions can be
made electronically to
mgsa.org at gmail.com
subject=ConstantinidesMemoriaTranslationPrizeCompetition

or by mail to
Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize
Modern Greek Studies Association
P O Box 945
Brunswick, ME
04011
USA

The MGSA is pleased to announce the 2013 Constantinides Memorial
Translation Prize Competition for original, new translations into English
of a literary work published in Modern Greek.  A prize of $500 will be
awarded for a piece of Modern Greek literature (poetry, prose, theatre)
translated into English.  We welcome work by scholars of Modern Greek and
other fields and languages as well as creative writers, students, and
anyone knowledgeable of Greek and English engaged in the work of
translation.

This competition is intended to raise the profile of contemporary Greek
literature in English and to award translation as a creative,
intellectually meaningful exercise. Established in 1995 and administered by
the MGSA, the Prize honors the memory of Elizabeth Constantinides
(1932-1992 Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from Columbia University), who taught
Modern Greek language and literature at Queens College of CUNY from 1978 to
1992, wrote on Alexandros Papadiamantis, and translated twelve short
stories by Papadiamantis, published as Tales from a Greek Island (Johns
Hopkins University Press,1987). Constantinides served on the Executive
Committee of the MGSA and was awarded the 1987 prize of the Society of
Literary Translators in Athens, Greece.

The winner will be formally announced and congratulated at the MGSA 2013
Symposium of November 14-16, 2013 at Indiana University in Bloomington,
Indiana. The MGSA Executive Director will mail the $500 award to the winner.

Submissions are due April 15, 2013.

RULES FOR SUBMISSION

 *   The translation must be from Modern Greek into English.
 *   The competition is open to any literary genre: poetry, prose, or
drama.  Excerpts from longer works will be considered.

 *   The Greek original must be published.
 *   The English translation may be either published or unpublished.
 *   Only one submission per translator is allowed.
 *   The submission should include a cover letter with the name of the
author of the translated work, title of the translated work, name of the
translator, postal address of the translator, and e-mail address of the
translator – if available.
 *   The submission should also include a brief statement by the translator
(no more than one page in length) explaining why the particular Greek text
was chosen and what goals and/or principles were employed in the
translation.
 *   The translator’s name must not appear on the translation itself or in
the translator’s statement. It should only be in the cover letter.
 *   The translation itself must be typed, double-spaced in 12pt standard
font (Times, Times New Roman, Palatino, Baskerville, Georgia), and printed
on one side only of standard letter-size paper.
 *   The submission should not exceed thirty pages in length; this
restriction also applies to lengthy novels and plays. A thirty-page chapter
from a novel or a thirty-page act from a play is acceptable.
 *   Translators are not required to be members of the MGSA when submitting
their work.
 *   Send one copy of the cover sheet and five copies each of the
translator’s 1-page statement, English translation and Greek original to
Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize
Modern Greek Studies Association
P O Box 945
Brunswick, ME
04011
USA
 *   Alternatively the translator may email as separate pdf attachments the
cover sheet (with the translator’s name) and the file or files (without the
translator’s name) of the translator’s statement, English translation, and
Greek original.  The email address is:
mgsa.org at gmail.com
subject=ConstantinidesMemoriaTranslationPrizeCompetition
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