Awards Offered by ATA
ATA recognizes our colleagues who, through their daily work, volunteer activities, and careers exemplify the qualities that define excellence in our field or who have made a significant impact on the profession of translation and interpreting.
Advocacy Award
The ATA Advocacy Award recognizes a person or entity that has demonstrated outstanding advocacy for the language professions in general, for the importance of professional translators and interpreters, and/or for the greater societal understanding of the value of professional translators…
Alexander Gode Medal
The Alexander Gode Medal, ATA’s most prestigious award, is presented to an individual or institution in recognition of outstanding service to the translation and interpreting professions. This award may be given annually. Nominations are solicited from past recipients and from…
Dynamo Award
The ATA Dynamo Award recognizes a person or entity that has worked in a particularly energetic way to benefit ATA and/or the language professions. The award is bestowed in odd-numbered years.
Impact Award
The ATA Impact Award recognizes a person or entity that has demonstrated outstanding leadership having an impact with ATA through work on a specific project or initiative. This award differs from ATA Honorary Membership in that it is presented for…
Innovation Award
The ATA Innovation Award recognizes a person or entity that has worked in a particularly innovative way to benefit ATA and/or the language professions. The award is bestowed in even-numbered years.
Lewis Galantière Award
The Lewis Galantière Award is bestowed biennially in even-numbered years for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language, except German, into English. The Ungar German Translation Award is given in odd-numbered years. Who was Lewis Galantière? Lewis Galantière (1894-1977) was a…
Mentoring Award
The ATA Mentoring Award recognizes a person or entity that has provided outstanding mentoring to the next generation of translators and interpreters, either through the ATA Mentoring Program or through another channel. The award is bestowed in odd-numbered years.
Rising Star Award
The ATA Rising Star Award recognizes an early-career translator, interpreter, or entity that is seen as having already “made a mark” on ATA and seen as having great potential to positively impact ATA and the language professions in the future….
Ungar German Translation Award
The ATA Ungar German Translation Award is bestowed biennially in odd-numbered years for a distinguished literary translation from German into English. Who was Frederick Ungar? Frederick Ungar was a publisher and translator for 65 years and the 1975 ATA Gode…
Awards and scholarships offered by AFTI
The American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation (AFTI) supports the translation and interpreting professions through research grants, scholarships, conferences, and commissions for the production of education materials.
ATA Membership Diversity Award
Offers ATA memberships to individuals joining ATA for the first time who are Black, indigenous, or people of color.
Marian S. Greenfield Financial Translation Presentation Award
Recognizes an outstanding presenter of a financial translation session during the ATA Annual Conference.
Harvie Jordan Scholarship
Awards a fully paid ATA conference registration to a member of the Spanish Language Division.
ATA Student Translation Award
Awards a grant-in-aid to a student for a literary or sci-tech translation or translation-related project.
S. Edmund Berger Prize in Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation
Recognizes excellence in scientific and technical translation by an ATA member.
AFTI First-Time ATA Conference Attendee Student Scholarship
Offers scholarships to students or recent graduates to help defray the cost of attending ATA’s Annual Conference.
Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation
Recognizes imaginative solutions to translation problems based on rigorous research.
Annual Awards Presentation
Join us in recognizing excellence within ATA membership, as well as throughout the translation and interpreting professions.
ATA Honors and Awards
ATA has acknowledged outstanding service and professional distinction since 1964.
Gode Medal 2020
ATA’s most prestigious award, the Gode Medal is presented to Sue Ellen Wright in recognition of her outstanding service.