University of Iowa Professor Aron Aji has been awarded a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Translation Fellowship to support his translation from Turkish of My Heart’s East, a collection of poems by Murathan Mungan.
Aji is the director of the MFA in Literary Translation Program in the Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He was also the recipient of a previous NEA Literature Translation Fellowship in 2006 and received a National Translation Award in 2004.
The translation of My Heart's East will be the first book-length collection of Mungan’s poetry to appear in English. Aji will collaborate on the project with David Gramling, a translator and faculty member at the University of Arizona.