First Man Booker International Translator's Prize Awarded
This just in: David Bellos, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton, has won a new award given by the British Booker Prize Foundation. The Translator's Prize is part of the Man Booker International Prize, also awarded for the first time this year.
Under the foundations's rules, the winner of the International Prize selects the winning translator; Albanian novelist, poet, and playwright Ismail Kadaré chose Bellos, who has completed translations of five of Kadaré's novels and is working on two others.
In May, the foundation announced the creation of the Translator's Prize in recognition of the role of the translator, "the unsung hero of international literature," as the Man Group's chairman Harvey McGrath put it. Ah, music to my ears.
Both prizes are awarded every other year. The original author receives £60,000, the translator £15,000. The awards ceremony for Kadaré and Bellos will take place on June 27 in Edinburgh.
Congratulations!
Sabine
Under the foundations's rules, the winner of the International Prize selects the winning translator; Albanian novelist, poet, and playwright Ismail Kadaré chose Bellos, who has completed translations of five of Kadaré's novels and is working on two others.
In May, the foundation announced the creation of the Translator's Prize in recognition of the role of the translator, "the unsung hero of international literature," as the Man Group's chairman Harvey McGrath put it. Ah, music to my ears.
Both prizes are awarded every other year. The original author receives £60,000, the translator £15,000. The awards ceremony for Kadaré and Bellos will take place on June 27 in Edinburgh.
Congratulations!
Sabine
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