Highlights from the Latest Wave of Literary Prizes
Eric Vuillard wins the Prix Goncourt(opens in a new tab) for his novel of historical fiction, L’Ordre du jour, a behind the scenes look at the climate that led to the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.
Andrés Barba, whose book Such Small Hands(opens in a new tab) was published in translation by our dear friends at Transit Books this past April, wins the Premio Herralde de Novela(opens in a new tab) for República luminosa, a novel about thirty-two children overrunning the town of San Cristóbal.
Syrian writer Shahla Ujayli wins the 2017 Al Multaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story(opens in a new tab) for her short-story collection Bed of the King’s Daughter. This prize, in its second year, awards $20,000 to the winner and creates a fund to support the translation of the winning collection into English.
The Swiss Book Prize(opens in a new tab) goes to Jonas Lüscher for Kraft, a novel about a professor of Rhetoric in Tübingen who heads to Silicon Valley in the hopes of winning a million dollars.
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize honors the lifetime achievements of Sergio Ramírez(opens in a new tab), former Vice President of Nicaragua and active journalist, for his twenty-plus novels.
Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage emerges as the winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature(opens in a new tab).
Winners of the 2017 South African Literary Awards (SALAs)(opens in a new tab) have been announced, and three translation awards have been granted to Bridget Theron-Bushell, for her translation from Afrikaans of The Thirstland Trek: 1874-1881; to Jeff Opland, Wandile Kuse, and Pamela Maseko for their translation from isiXhosa of William Wellington Gqoba: Isizwe Esinembali: Xhosa Histories and Poetry (1873-1888); and to Jeff Opland and Pamela Maseko for another translation from isiXhosa, DLP Yali-Manisi: Iimbali Zamanyange: Historical Poems.
Alexandra Nikolayenko wins the 2017 Russian Booker Prize(opens in a new tab) for Kill Barykina: The Story of a Murder.
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