The Publishing Scotland Translation Fund, backed by Creative Scotland, announced its latest round of grants, supporting twelve international publishers to translate Scottish works.
Armaenia Editorial in Madrid will produce a Spanish edition of Kapka Kassabova’s Elixir. Dedunna in Sri Lanka will render Elle McNicol’s A Kind of Spark into Sinhalese.
Diwan Publishing in Cairo will translate Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell’s How to Kill a Witch to Arabic, while Éditions Phébus/Libella in Paris will bring Kate Foster’s The Mourning Necklace to French readers.
Editoriale Le Lettere in Italy will publish Imtiaz Dharker’s Shadow Reader in Italian, and ILI‑ILI in North Macedonia will translate Kassabova’s Elixir into Macedonian.
Jalsa Publishing House in Lebanon will issue Kate Foster’s The Maiden in Arabic, and Meridiaan Uitgevers in Amsterdam will release Alexander Starritt’s Drayton & Mackenzie in Dutch.
Paseka Publishing in Prague will translate Douglas Stuart’s John of John into Czech, while Rinoceronte Editora SLU in Spain will produce a Galician version of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.
Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur in Munich will translate AP Campbell’s Donald and his Seven Cows into German, and W1‑Verlage GmbH in Hamburg will bring Samantha D. Miles’s Under the Hammer to German readers. A second round of funding is planned for late 2026.