Author takes the 2020 John Florio Prize for her ‘exceptional’ and ‘agile’ translation from Italian of Trick by Domenico Starnone, in the Society of Authors’ annual Translation Prizes. Editor Saba Ahmed wins the TA First Translation Prize for the second year running.
The 2020 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation is awarded to Kay Heikkinen for her translation of the novel Velvet by Huzama Habayeb, published by Hoopoe Fiction.
Thirty-five translations from six languages: announcing the six shortlists for the 2020 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
Max Porter, winner of the 2016 Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, to judge the TA First Translation Prize for 2020 alongside writer and translator Maureen Freely and prize sponsor and translator Daniel Hahn.
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize Linda Coverdale has donated her prize money (£1,000) to fellow translator Gilles Mourier. Linda Coverdale (pictured) won the 2019 Scott Moncrieff Prize – part of the Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes – earlier this year but was unable to attend the awards ceremony in February 2020. Coverdale decided to…
The £2,000 prize, shared jointly with editor Saba Ahmed, was awarded at the Society of Authors’ annual Translation Prizes ceremony on 12 February.
Thirty-five translations from nine languages: announcing the seven shortlists for the 2019 Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes.
The 2020 Translation Prizes – awarded for translations into English from the Italian, Spanish, German and French – are now open for entries until Friday 28 February 2020.
Sophie Yanow’s translation of Pretending is Lying celebrated in Scott Moncrieff Prize – one of seven prizes for literature in translation awarded at The British Library on 13 February 2019.
The 2017 Translation Prizes were awarded tonight at the British Library, and winners were announced for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, the Goethe-Institut Award, the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán, the Vondel Prize and the inaugural TA First Translation Prize.
