NCCA calls for submission on Rolando S. Tinio Translator’s Prize

THE National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) welcomes submission of novel, poem, and epic for the Rolando S. Tinio Translator’s Prize that aims to provide huge avenue on texts and compositions interpretation and translation from different language to Filipino for better understanding of Filipino readers.

The Rolando S. Tinio Translator’s Prize is according to NCCA’s mandate to “encourage and monitor a comprehensive translation program which shall make works by Filipinos and selected foreign classics equally accessible to Filipino as well as international readers” (section 12.c.4, RA 7356).

In this Translator’s Prize, translator will work on the composition for one year and submit it to NCCA for possible publication. The formal ceremony of the Translator’s Prize can be held on April in accordance to the celebration of the National Literature Month pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation No. 968 signed in 2015.

For interested participants, completed application form must be submitted to the Cultural Dissemination Section of Plan/Policy Formulation and Programming Division of the NCCA, curriculum vitae, and 3-5 pages of concept paper that tackles the rationale and objective of the project with 4 copies of the initially translated composition. Participant can only join in one category: novel, poem, epic. The compositions will be reviewed by the National Committee for Language and Translation

The documents must be submitted until June 30, 2019 on:

Cultural Dissemination Section

Plan/ Policy Formulation and Programming Division

National Commission for Culture and the Arts

633 General Luna St., Intramuros, Manila 1002

For more details, please contact Mr. Rene Napeñas, head of the Public Affairs and Information Section, through 0928-5081057, 527-2192 loc 628 or through email address ncca.paio@gmail.com. Log on to www.ncca.gov.ph.

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