June 2023 translation news roundup
Our monthly roundup of translation and publishing news, plus updates in literature and arts education you may have missed!
Prizes
The Lake(opens in a new tab) by Bianca Bellová, translated from Czech by Alex Zucker and published by Parthian Books, won the EBRD Literature Prize 2023.(opens in a new tab)
The winners of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Awards(opens in a new tab), which celebrate independently-published books and magazines, were announced in June.
Monica Cure won the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation (opens in a new tab)Prize(opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)for her translation of The Censor’s Notebook(opens in a new tab) by Liliana Corobca (Seven Stories Press) from Romanian.
Lambda Literary announced the winners of the 2023 Lammy Awards(opens in a new tab) for LGBTQ+ literature.
News
PEN America is accepting submissions for its Literary Awards(opens in a new tab), including three awards for literary translation, until August 1.
The Department of Education will appoint “a new coordinator to address the growing threat that book bans pose for the civil rights of students”(opens in a new tab) as part of a new series of actions to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans.
Recommended reads
Read “Brother,”(opens in a new tab) an excerpt from Xu Zechen’s Beijing Sprawl (tr. Jeremy Tiang and Eric Abrahamsen), in n+1.
William McCormack reviews Beijing Sprawl for the China Project.(opens in a new tab)
11 Books in Translation from East Africa(opens in a new tab), from Mauritius to Burundi.
The New York Times Books’ entire July 2 issue is dedicated to literary translation! Check out an(opens in a new tab) interview with Jennifer Croft(opens in a new tab), a roundtable discussion about the joys and challenges of translation(opens in a new tab) with four celebrated voices in the field, an account of the history Iliad translations(opens in a new tab), an article about the radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator(opens in a new tab), and Daniel Hahn on preserving complexity while translating children’s picture books.(opens in a new tab)
Getting the Rights to Translate a Work:(opens in a new tab) A How-To Guide by Susan Bernofsky.
