June 2018 - TRANSLATIONiSTA

June 29th, 2018

Translation on Tap in NYC, July 1 – 31, 2018

It’s almost July, which means we need to be either at the beach or at a demonstration. But eventually you’ve got to come back to the city, and when you’re back, here are some nice translation events that will be waiting for you.

Monday, Jul. 9:

One Love … or Twelve: Translator Tess Lewis reads and speaks with Monique Schwitter about her translation of Schwitter’s novel One Another. More information here. Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Jul. 17: Read More…

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June 27th, 2018

Words Without Borders Wins Inaugural Whiting Magazine Prize

I couldn’t be more thrilled to hear that Words Without Borders – the fantastic online journal of international literature in translation – has been selected for one of the three Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes in this, the first year of these awards. The win was in the “digital” category. This prize of up to $30,000 total, in the form of a $10,000 grant in the first year, followed by 2:1 matching grants up to $10,000 in each of the following two years, will make a big difference to this relatively low-budget but high-impact enterprise. Words Without Borders, which is just celebrating its 15th year of publication, has been instrumental in creating a space and audience for translated literature. It also foregrounded the work of translators right from the start, with essays and interviews by and about translators a regular feature. I’ve been very proud to have some of my work published in its pages over the years (I think the first time was this little Yoko Tawada story in 2005). Thank you so much, Whiting Foundation, for recognizing the important work of this crucial journal of Translationland. A big cheer and huge congratulations, WWOB!

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June 23rd, 2018

2018 Transatlantyk Prize Announced

The Transatlantyk Prize – awarded annually by the Polish Book Institute for an eminent promoter of Polish literature abroad – doesn’t always go to a translator, though most of the recipients into recent years have been translators of Polish literature into various languages, including Chinese (Yi Lijun), Dutch (Karol Lesman), English (Bill Johnston), French (Laurence Dyèvre), Romanian (Constantin Geambaşu), and Hungarian (Lajos Pálfalvi). Last night this prize, which comes with a €10,000 purse and a statuette by Łukasz Kieferling, was awarded to the British translator of Polish literature Antonia Lloyd-Jones, known for her translations of Jacek Dehnel, Paweł Huelle, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Żanna Słoniowska, Olga Tokarczuk, and others, as well as for her tireless work in support of both Polish literature and the literary translation community.

She is the second translator of Olga Tokarczuk to receive major honors this year.

Congratulations, Antonia!

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June 14th, 2018

Inaugural World Literature Today Translation Prize Announced

The journal World Literature Today launched a pair of new translation prizes this year honoring translations by current students in translation studies programs, judged by a jury comprised of the journal’s editors. The awards – one each in poetry and fiction – come with publication on the journal’s website and a purse of $200 for each of the winners. The window for submissions closed on January 1st of this year, and the 2018 winners have just been announced:

Poetry: Read More…

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June 9th, 2018

2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Announced

Today was Oxford Translation Day at St. Anne’s College, at the culmination of which the winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize was announced. And the winner is . . . Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman. This makes me especially happy because this was the very first book published by the brand-new translation-themed publishing house Transit Books in 2017, and the book’s success is a tribute to the editors’ good taste and acumen. The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize is for a book published in the UK though, so it’s officially Portobello Books that gets the publication credit here. I was proud to get a shout-out for my shortlisted book as well. Big congratulations to Lisa Dillman on having her translation selected for the prize!

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June 7th, 2018

2018 Albertine Prize Announced

2018 Albertine Prize winner Emma Ramadan

After a suspenseful season of public voting, the winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize for a work of contemporary Francophone fiction in English translation was announced last night during a ceremony at the lovely bookstore that gives the prize its name. And the winner is: Not One Day by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan and published by Deep Vellum. For more information about the prize itself as well as the winning book, author, and translator, visit the Albertine website. Congratulations, Emma!

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June 1st, 2018

2018 Best Translated Book Awards Announced

The winners of the 2018 Best Translated Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in New York last night: The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden (fiction) published by Open Letter Books, and Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, translated by Karen Emmerich (poetry) published by Ugly Duckling Presse. For more information about the winning books and the BTBA itself, visit the Three Percent website.

Big congratulations to both winning translators!

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