On May 8th, a committee of experts reviewed 19 project applications for translating literary works of Latvian authors abroad for the total amount of 71 981 EUR. The committee voted to grant 50 000 EUR to 16 proposals. Please see the list of the projects supported below.
The committee consisted of five members: literary critic Anda Baklāne, translator and publisher Pēteris Jankavs, translator Dace Meiere, writer and translator Vilis Kasims, and executive manager of the "Latvian Literature" platform Inga Bodnarjuka-Mrazauskas.
This grant contest is financed by the State Culture Capital Foundation and The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and supports projects in different languages.
The next competition will be announced on August 1st, 2019.
| Nr. | Author and literary work | Language | Translator | Publishing House |
| 1. | Sandra Kalniete "Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos" | Tamil | Lakshmi Chitoor Subramaniam | Kalachuvadu publications |
| 2. | Inga Ābele "Duna" | English | Christopher Moseley | Norvik Press |
| 3. | Semjons Haņins "Bet ne ar to / No ne tem" | Chinese | Xin Qiu | Sichuan University Press Co, Ltd. |
| 4. | Semjons Haņins "Bet ne ar to /No ne tem" | Hungarian | Orsolya Kiš | FISZ-Kalligram |
| 5. | Nora Ikstena "Mātes piens" | Croatian | Santa Domijan Zviedre | Hena com |
| 6. | Nora Ikstena "Mātes piens" | Japanese | Ayumi Kurosawa | Shinhyoron, Ltd. |
| 7. | Nora Ikstena "Amour fou" | Ukranian | Lina Melnyk | Yaroslaviv Val |
| 8. | Valentīns Jākobsons "Brokastis pusnaktī" | French | Jean-Jacques Ringuenoir | Editions du Cygne |
| 9. | Arno Jundze "Sarkanais dzīvsudrabs" | Lithuanian | Jurgis Algimantas Banevičius | Lithuanian Writers Union Publishing House |
| 10. | Arno Jundze "Putekļi smilšu pulkstenī" | Spanish | Agnija Anča | Abismos |
| 11. | Juris Zvirgzdiņš "Mufa" | Italian | Margherita Carbonaro | Sinnos Publishing House |
| 12. | Sergejs Timofejevs "TBD" | Georgian | Nene Giorgadze | Nodar Dumbadze Publishing |
| 13. | Edvards Virza "Straumēni" | German | Berthold Forssman | Guggolz Verlag |
| 14. | Zane Zusta "Ucipuci" | Macedonian | Irena Trajkova | Antolog Publishing House |
| 15. | Juris Zvirgzdiņš "Mazās bitītes lielais ceļojums" | Armenian | Naira Khachatryan | VERNATUN |
| 16. | Baiba Zīle "Melu meistars" | German | Britta Ringer | KLAK Verlag |
