Congratulations to the new mentees selected for the Emerging Translator Mentorships 2025 by the National Centre for Writing! Among them Polish mentee Monika Zaleska who will be mentored by Sean Gasper Bye as well as Kasia Laganowska, who also translates from Polish and was selected through the non-language specific mentorship strand for a chronically ill translator and will be mentored by Annie Rutherford.

Full list of New Mentees:

Imane Amraoui – Arabic, mentored by Sawad Hussain

Jilly Bong – Chinese, mentored by Jeremy Tiang

Brad Harmon – Faroese, mentored by Marita Thomsen

Fiona Spencer-Piacentini – Italian, mentored by Elena Pala

Ecre Karadag – Japanese, mentored by Polly Barton

Sarah K. H. Yoo – Korean, mentored by Clare Richards

Asher Maria – Lithuanian, mentored by Kotryna Garanasvili

Monika Zaleska – Polish, mentored by Sean Gasper Bye

Kasia Laganowska – Polish, mentored by Annie Rutherford

Find out more about the nine fantastic new mentees as well as the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme here:

https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/…/etm/mentees/

The Polish Cultural Institute in London is proud to support this great mentorship programme.