from alta: American Literary Translators Association, accessed 10/27/10
2010 Alex Zucker for his translation from the Czech of Petra Hůlová’s All This Belongs to Me
2009 Norman Shapiro for his translation from the French of French Women Poets of Nine Centuries
2008 Richard Wilbur for his translation of French dramatist Pierre Corneille’s The Theatre of Illusion
2007 Joel Agee for his translation of The Selected Writings of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
2006 Ellen Elias-Bursać for her translation of David Albahari’s Serbian novel Götz and Meyer
2005 Vincent Katz for his translation The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
2004 Aron Aji for his translation of Bilge Karasu’s Turkish novel The Garden of Departed Cats
2003 Jo Anne Engelbert for her translation of Roberto Sosa’s Spanish poetryThe Return of the River
2002 E.H. and A.M. Blackmore for their translation of Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
2001 Danuta Borchardt for her translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Polish novel Ferdydurke
2000 Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin for their translation of Chu T’ien-wen’s Chinese novel Notes of a Desolate Man
1999 Peter Constantine for his translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories
1998 Carolyn Tipton for her translation of To Painting by Rafael Alberti
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
PEN USA Literary Awards (2009-10)
From Pen Center USA accessed 9/20/10
Winner:
Victor Lodato: Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Finalists:
Scott Blackwood: We Agreed to Meet Just Here (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Robert Boswell: The Heydey of Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press)
Ryan Boudinot: Misconception (Grove/Atlantic)
Laird Hunt: Ray of the Star (Coffee House Press)
POETRY
Winner:
Amy Catanzano: Multiversal (Fordham University Press)
Finalists:
Dan Beachy-Quick: The Nest, Swift Passerine (Tupelo Press)
Douglas Kearney: The Black Automaton (Fence Books)
Rachel Loden: Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press)
Joseph Stroud: Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Winner:
Vicki Forman: This Lovely Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Finalists:
Charles Bowden: Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the
Future (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Stephen Elliott: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism,
and Murder (Graywolf Press)
Jarvis Jay Masters: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an
Innocent Man on Death Row (HarperOne)
Gregory Orfalea: Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family,
Place, and Politics (University of Arizona Press)
RESEARCH NONFICTION
Winner:
Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Finalists:
Dan Baum: Nine Lives: Death and Live in New Orleans (Random House
Publishing Group)
Lesley Hazleton: After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni
Split in Islam (Doubleday Publishing)
Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Carol Sklenicka: Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Winner:
Paul Fleischman: The Dunderheads (Candlewick Press)
Finalists:
Kate DiCamillo: The Magician's Elephant (Candlewick Press)
Benjamin Alire Saenz: Last Night I Sang to the Monster (Cinco Puntos Press)
Liz Garton Scanlon: All the World (Beach Lane Books)
JOURNALISM
Winner:
Mary Melton: Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures (Los Angeles Magazine)
Finalists:
Megan Feldman: Gimme Shelter (Dallas Observer)
Kristen Hinman: Vanishing Act (River Front Times)
Matthew Segal: Spokes People (Los Angeles Magazine)
Joe Wilkins: Out West: Growing Up Hard (Orion Magazine)
TRANSLATION
Winner:
Fady Joudah: Mahmoud Darwish's If I Were Another (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
Sean Cotter: Liliana Ursu's Lightwall (Zephyr Press)
Stephen Kessler: Luis Cernuda's Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press)
Donald Revell: Arthur Rimbaud's The Illuminations (Omnidawn Publishing)
Edward Snow: The Poetry of Rilke
2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction ($25,000)
Cormac McCarthy
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000)
Steve Coll for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Finalists:
Jeff Madrick for The Case for Big Government
Jane Mayer for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation: The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years and honors a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work.
Michael Henry Heim
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($10,000)
To Richard Brody for Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Finalists:
Jeffrey Meyers for Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
Stanley Plumly for Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
Donald Ray Pollock for Knockemstiff
Finalists:
Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances
Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama ($7,500)
Master: Sam Shepard
Mid-career: Nilo Cruz
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000)
Jeffrey Yang for An Aquarium
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000)
Carol Lynch Williams for A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000)
Marilyn Hacker for her translation of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne
Finalists:
Randall Couch for his translation of Madwomen by Gabriela Mistral
Forrest Gander for his translation of Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems by Coral Bracho
PEN Translation Prize ($3,000)
Natasha Wimmer for her translation of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Finalists:
Jordan Stump for his translation of The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre
Joel Rotenberg for his translation of The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
PEN/Nora Magid Award ($2,500)
Hanna Tinti for One Story
New Yorker Critic Wins PEN/Bograd Weld Biography Prize
Richard Brody, a film critic and editor at the New Yorker, was selected for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, a $10,000 prize given to a distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit published in the United States during the previous calendar year.
Brody received the award for his first book, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Metropolitan Books). Billy Collins hosted the ceremony, which was held in Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on May 19.
The award was established by Rodman L. Drake. This year's judges were Timothy Noah, René Steinke, and Judith Thurman.
The finalists were Jeffrey Meyers, for Samuel Johnson: The Struggle (Basic Books), and Stanley Plumly, for Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton & Co.).
For more information about the award, visit the PEN website.
Winner:
Victor Lodato: Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Finalists:
Scott Blackwood: We Agreed to Meet Just Here (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Robert Boswell: The Heydey of Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press)
Ryan Boudinot: Misconception (Grove/Atlantic)
Laird Hunt: Ray of the Star (Coffee House Press)
POETRY
Winner:
Amy Catanzano: Multiversal (Fordham University Press)
Finalists:
Dan Beachy-Quick: The Nest, Swift Passerine (Tupelo Press)
Douglas Kearney: The Black Automaton (Fence Books)
Rachel Loden: Dick of the Dead (Ahsahta Press)
Joseph Stroud: Of This World: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Winner:
Vicki Forman: This Lovely Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Finalists:
Charles Bowden: Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the
Future (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Stephen Elliott: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism,
and Murder (Graywolf Press)
Jarvis Jay Masters: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an
Innocent Man on Death Row (HarperOne)
Gregory Orfalea: Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family,
Place, and Politics (University of Arizona Press)
RESEARCH NONFICTION
Winner:
Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
Finalists:
Dan Baum: Nine Lives: Death and Live in New Orleans (Random House
Publishing Group)
Lesley Hazleton: After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni
Split in Islam (Doubleday Publishing)
Robin Kelley: Thelonious Monk (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Carol Sklenicka: Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Winner:
Paul Fleischman: The Dunderheads (Candlewick Press)
Finalists:
Kate DiCamillo: The Magician's Elephant (Candlewick Press)
Benjamin Alire Saenz: Last Night I Sang to the Monster (Cinco Puntos Press)
Liz Garton Scanlon: All the World (Beach Lane Books)
JOURNALISM
Winner:
Mary Melton: Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures (Los Angeles Magazine)
Finalists:
Megan Feldman: Gimme Shelter (Dallas Observer)
Kristen Hinman: Vanishing Act (River Front Times)
Matthew Segal: Spokes People (Los Angeles Magazine)
Joe Wilkins: Out West: Growing Up Hard (Orion Magazine)
TRANSLATION
Winner:
Fady Joudah: Mahmoud Darwish's If I Were Another (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
Sean Cotter: Liliana Ursu's Lightwall (Zephyr Press)
Stephen Kessler: Luis Cernuda's Desolation of the Chimera (White Pine Press)
Donald Revell: Arthur Rimbaud's The Illuminations (Omnidawn Publishing)
Edward Snow: The Poetry of Rilke
2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction ($25,000)
Cormac McCarthy
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000)
Steve Coll for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Finalists:
Jeff Madrick for The Case for Big Government
Jane Mayer for The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation: The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years and honors a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work.
Michael Henry Heim
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($10,000)
To Richard Brody for Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Finalists:
Jeffrey Meyers for Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
Stanley Plumly for Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
Donald Ray Pollock for Knockemstiff
Finalists:
Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances
Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama ($7,500)
Master: Sam Shepard
Mid-career: Nilo Cruz
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000)
Jeffrey Yang for An Aquarium
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000)
Carol Lynch Williams for A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000)
Marilyn Hacker for her translation of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne
Finalists:
Randall Couch for his translation of Madwomen by Gabriela Mistral
Forrest Gander for his translation of Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems by Coral Bracho
PEN Translation Prize ($3,000)
Natasha Wimmer for her translation of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Finalists:
Jordan Stump for his translation of The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre
Joel Rotenberg for his translation of The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
PEN/Nora Magid Award ($2,500)
Hanna Tinti for One Story
New Yorker Critic Wins PEN/Bograd Weld Biography Prize
Richard Brody, a film critic and editor at the New Yorker, was selected for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, a $10,000 prize given to a distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit published in the United States during the previous calendar year.
Brody received the award for his first book, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Metropolitan Books). Billy Collins hosted the ceremony, which was held in Elebash Recital Hall at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on May 19.
The award was established by Rodman L. Drake. This year's judges were Timothy Noah, René Steinke, and Judith Thurman.
The finalists were Jeffrey Meyers, for Samuel Johnson: The Struggle (Basic Books), and Stanley Plumly, for Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton & Co.).
For more information about the award, visit the PEN website.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize (2009)
from SA 012910
Dr. Edith Grossman has won the inaugural [2009 or 2010?] Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize for her translation of A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Muñoz Molina, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. The award will be presented next Tuesday, February 2, at a ceremony presided over by Institute chairman Oscar de la Renta that will include a dialogue between the author and translator.
Dr. Edith Grossman has won the inaugural [2009 or 2010?] Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize for her translation of A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Muñoz Molina, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. The award will be presented next Tuesday, February 2, at a ceremony presided over by Institute chairman Oscar de la Renta that will include a dialogue between the author and translator.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Times Literary Supplement Translation Award (2009)
Noting that "the art--or craft--of translation is in good shape," if underappreciated, the Times Literary Supplement honored seven translators with awards for their work in 2009. The winners are:
Anthea Bell: Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
Thomas Teal: Bernard Shaw Prize for Fair Play by Tove Jansson
Polly McLean: Scott Moncrieff Prize for Gross Margin by Laurent Quintreau
Samah Selim: Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for The Collar and the Bracelet by Yahya Taher Abdullah
Margaret Jull Costa, Premio Valle Inclán Prize for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
Peter Bush: Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares
Sam Garrett: Vondel Prize for Ararat by Frank Westerman
Anthea Bell: Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
Thomas Teal: Bernard Shaw Prize for Fair Play by Tove Jansson
Polly McLean: Scott Moncrieff Prize for Gross Margin by Laurent Quintreau
Samah Selim: Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for The Collar and the Bracelet by Yahya Taher Abdullah
Margaret Jull Costa, Premio Valle Inclán Prize for The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
Peter Bush: Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation Prize for Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares
Sam Garrett: Vondel Prize for Ararat by Frank Westerman
Friday, May 1, 2009
Best English Translations of French Prose in 2008
The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announce Finalists of 22nd Annual Translation Prizes
Best English Translations of French Prose in 2008 Honored
New York, NY (April 27, 2009) – The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announce the finalists for their 22nd Annual Translation Prizes for superior English translations of French works published in 2008. There will be one award for translation in fiction, and a second for non-fiction.
Translator is finalist for French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prizes for superior English translations of French works published in 2008.
The FICTION* finalists are
Alison Anderson for The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions)
John Cullen for The Only Son by Stephane Audeguy (Harcourt)
Jody Gladding & Elizabeth Deshays for Small Lives by Pierre Michon (Archipelago Books)
Douglas Parmée for Afloat by Guy de Maupassant (New York Review Books)
Julie Rose for Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Modern Library)
*due to tie in votes, the fiction selection garnered six finalists instead of five.
The NON-FICTION finalists are
Ryan Bloom for Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus (Ivan R. Dee)
Matthew Cobb & Malcolm Debevoise for Life Explained by Michel Morange (Yale University Press/Odile Jacob)
Janet Lloyd for Comparing the Incomparable by Marcel Detienne (Stanford University Press)
Jeremy Mercer for Abolition by Robert Badinter (University Press of New England)
Richard A. Rand for Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy (Fordham University Press)
Winners of the fiction and non-fiction prizes will receive a cash prize of $10,000 each, funded by the Florence Gould Foundation. They will be honored at a special ceremony on May 26 in New York.
Jurors for this year’s competition include Linda Asher, Tom Bishop, Antoine Compagnon, Linda Coverdale, Richard Howard and Lily Tuck.
About The French-American Foundation
The French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental link between France and the United States at leadership levels and across the full range of the French-American relationship.
About The Florence Gould Foundation
The Florence Gould Foundation is an American foundation devoted to French-American exchange and friendship. Born of French parents in San Francisco in 1895, Florence Gould lived both in the United States and France during her lifetime. At her death in 1993, Florence Gould left the bulk of her fortune to the foundation bearing her name.
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