Grant for the Publication of Taiwanese Works in Translation (GPT) is set up by The Ministry of Culture to encourage the publication of Taiwanese works in translation overseas, to raise the international visibility of Taiwanese cultural content, and to help Taiwan's publishing industry expand into non-Chinese international markets.
GPT 2024-2 is now inviting legally registered or incorporated foreign publishing house (legal entity) to take this opportunity：Submitting your project aiming at Taiwanese works in translation to be published in print in your country before October 31, 2026. The Taiwanese works to be translated must meet the following requirements：(1) Use traditional characters, (2) written by a natural person holding an R.O.C. (Taiwan) identity card, and (3) has been assigned an ISBN in Taiwan. All genres will be considered. Priority is given to projects with books that have won the Golden Tripod Award, the Golden Comic Award, the Taiwan Literature Award, books on Taiwan’s culture and history, or series of books. Marketing and promotion fees are no longer limited to subsidizing international air tickets, but those who apply for this funding must propose a specific marketing promotion plan and complete the implementation before submitting the grant project results; those whose plans include talks or book launching events attended by authors in person will be given priority for grants. If applications use the fully translated English version of the book selected into "Books from Taiwan" to be published directly or translated into other languages, or uses its excerpt translated English version to translate the entire text into English or other languages for publication, please state it in applications, and apply for authorization from the Ministry of Culture. For those who use the fully translated English version for publication, the grant does not cover translation fees; for those who use the excerpt translated English version, the translation fee is limited to the length of the book that has not yet been translated, and its grant amount will be adjusted based on the length of the entire text. The maximum grant available for each project is NT$ 600,000.
GPT 2024-2 is now call for submissions online (October 1, 2024 - October 31, 2024, according to Taiwan time GMT+8). For more information please visit the official website (https://grants.moc.gov.tw/Web_ENG/). Check Books From Taiwan (https://booksfromtaiwan.tw/) for shortlists and abstracts of aforementioned award-winning books.
Please feel free to contact the Ministry of Culture by E-mail books@moc.gov.tw if you require further assistance.
