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Warwick Prize For Women In Translation
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, established in 2017, is an annual prize honoring a translated work by a female author published in English by a UK-based or Irish publisher during the previous calendar year. The stated aim of the prize is "to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership." The prize is open to works of fiction, poetry, or literary non-fiction, or works of fiction for children or young adults. Only works written by a woman are eligible; the gender of the translator is immaterial. The £1,000 prize is divided evenly between the author and her translator(s), or goes entirely to the translator(s) in cases where the writer is no longer living. The prize is funded and administered by the University of Warwick. Awards 2022 The 2022 shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The joint winners were announced on 24 November 2022. 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Warwick
The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand higher education. The Warwick Business School was established in 1967, the Warwick Law School in 1968, WMG, University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) in 1980, and Warwick Medical School in 2000. Warwick incorporated Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004. Warwick is primarily based on a campus on the outskirts of Coventry, with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a central London base at the Shard. It is organised into three faculties—Arts, Science Engineering and Medicine, and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. As of 2021, Warwick has around 29,534 full-time students and 2,691 academic and research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Haratischwili
Nino Haratischwili ( ka, ნინო ხარატიშვილი; born 8 June 1983) is a Georgia born German novelist, playwright, and theater director. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, and the Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft. Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she attended a German-language school. To escape the political and social chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, she moved to Germany for two years in the early 1990s with her mother, where she attended seventh and eighth grades of school. Her family returned to Georgia afterwards. Haratischwili later moved to Germany again to attend drama school in Hamburg. After working as a theater director in Hamburg for several years, she published her first book, ''Juja'', in 2010. She became a German citizen in 2012. Haratischwili currently lives in Hamburg. Bibliography * ''Der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley (born 18 May 1957) is a British poet and writer. She has published five collections of poetry and edited several anthologies. She is the winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and the Cholmondeley Award in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (single poem) in 1997 and again in 2015. Her poetry collections ''Life Under Water'' (2008) and ''Kissing A Bone'' (1996) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Biography Maura Dooley was born on 18 May 1957 in Truro to Irish parents and grew up in Bristol. She obtained a BA (Hons) from the University of York in 1978 and attended the University of Bristol from 1980 to 1981. She was the director of the writing centre at the Arvon Foundation in Yorkshire from 1982 to 1987. From 1987 to 1993, Dooley served as programme director of literature for the South Bank Centre in London. In the 1990s she helped develop family films for Jim Henson Productions and developed a theatre workshop for Performing Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azita Ghahreman
Azita Ghahreman (born 1962 Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian poet. She has written six books in Persian and three books in Swedish. She has also translated American poetry. She has published four collections of poetry: ''Eve's Songs'' (1983), ''Sculptures of Autumn'' (1986), ''Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual'' (1992) and ''The Suburb of Crows'' (2008), a collection reflecting on her exile in Sweden (she lives in an area called oxie on the outskirts of Malmö) that was published in both Swedish and Persian. A collection of Ghahreman's work was published in Swedish in 2009, alongside the work of Sohrab Rahimi and Kristian Carlsson. She has also translated a collection of poems by the American poet and cartoonist, Shel Silverstein, ''The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends'' (2000), into Persian. She has edited three volumes of poems by poets from Khorasan, the eastern province of Iran, which has a rich and distinctive history. Ghahreman's poems have been translated into various languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Ernaux
Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer, professor of literature and Nobel laureate. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Early life and education Ernaux was born in Lillebonne in Normandy and grew up in nearby Yvetot, where her parents, Blanche (Dumenil) and Alphonse Duchesne, ran a café and grocery in a working-class part of town. In 1960 she travelled to London where she worked as an au pair, an experience she would later relate in 2016's ''Mémoire de fille'' (''A Girl's Story''). Upon returning to France, she studied at the universities of Rouen and then Bordeaux, qualified as a schoolteacher, and earned a higher degree in modern literature in 1971. She worked for a time on a thesis project, unfinished, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Kover
Tina Kover (born March 20, 1975 in Denver, Colorado, USA) is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Master's Degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Durham University. Her translation of Négar Djavadi's award-winning novel ''Disoriental'' was a finalist for the inaugural National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2018, the PEN Translation Prize in 2019, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and the International Dublin Literary Award. ''Disoriental'' was awarded both the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction in June 2019. ''Older Brother'' was a finalist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2020. Her translation of ''In the Shadow of the Fire'' was selected for a French Voices Award in 2020. She is the co-founder, with Charlotte C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Négar Djavadi
Négar Djavadi (born 1969) is an Iranian- French novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 novel '' Disoriental (Désorientale)''.Dalia Sofer"A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile" ''The New York Times'', June 8, 2018. Born in Tehran, Djavadi and her family moved to France shortly after the Iranian Revolution due to their opposition to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. She studied film at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion, and worked for a number of years as a screenwriter and film director. Her work in film included the short films ''L'Espace désolé'' (1995), ''Entre les vagues'' (1997), ''Comédie classique'' (2001) and ''Jeanne, à petits pas...'' (2005), the feature film ''13 m²'' (2007) and the television film ''Né sous silence'' (2018). ''Désorientale'', her debut novel, was published in 2016, and ''Disoriental'', its English translation by Tina Kover, was publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disoriental
''Disoriental'' (french: Désorientale) is a French-language novel by French-Iranian author Négar Djavadi, published by in 2016. Tina Kover translated the book into English, and this version was published by Europa Editions in 2018. It was the first novel written by the author. The book is narrated by Kimiâ Sadr, who at age 10 flees Iran and goes to exile in Paris. She feels disoriented from her lack of status in the society, and the novel's title is a combination of the words "désorienter" and "oriental". ''Disoriental'' describes the history of her family, including her two older sisters, her six uncles, and her parents. Her father Darius, who does political advocacy, accommodates the narrator's tomboyish nature. Kimia is a bisexual. Her mother Sara is also an activist. Kimiâ's second uncle, a gay man, lives in a country where homosexuality is illegal and has a heterosexual marriage that produced children. The other characters see him as the family mythologist. Foreshado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Rix
Len Rix is a translator of Hungarian literature into English, noted for his translations of Antal Szerb's '' Journey by Moonlight'' and ''The Pendragon Legend'' and of Magda Szabó's '' The Door'' and ''Katalin Street''. Early life and education Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe in 1942, where he studied English, French and Latin at the (then) University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In 1963 he won a Commonwealth Scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he read English. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and subsequently as a teacher of English at Manchester Grammar School (where he was also Head of Careers), before retiring in 2005 to live in Cambridge. Rix learned Hungarian on his own, using textbooks, audio recordings and literature. Translations Len Rix's first published translation from Hungarian was of Tamás Kabdebó's ''Minden idők'' (''A Time for Everything'') (Cardinal Press, 1995), but he is best known for his renderings of Antal Sz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (October 5, 1917 – November 19, 2007) was a Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the , an online digital repository of Hungarian literature. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in 42 countries and over 30 languages. Early life Magda Szabó was born in Debrecen, Austria-Hungary in 1917. Her father was an academic and taught her English and Latin. In 1940, she graduated from the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. She began teaching in the same year at the Protestant Girls Boarding School in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. From 1945 to 1949, she worked in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka (1913–1982) in 1947. Writing career Szabó began her writing career as a poet and in 1947 she published her first book of poetry, ''Bá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail (novel)
''Abigail'' ( Hungarian: ''Abigél'') is a young adult novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó. It was first published in 1970 and is her most widely read novel. ''Abigail'' is an adventure story about a teenage girl who attends a Calvinist girls' school in eastern Hungary during World War II. In the Hungarian Big Read in 2005, it was voted the sixth most popular novel in Hungary. It was the third most popular Hungarian novel on the list. The novel has been translated into Catalan, Czech, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Polish, and Romanian. An English translation by Len Rix was published in January 2020. A Hungarian audiobook is read by Ildikó Piros (who played Sister Susanna in the TV series), and an English audiobook is read by Samantha Desz. Plot summary The main character of the novel is Georgina "Gina" Vitay, a girl from Budapest, the daughter of a general, her mother died early, her governess had to leave Hungary by the beginning of the Second World War. In 1943, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and TA First Translation Prize, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and several English PEN Translates Awards. She has a BA from Swarthmore College, a MA from Columbia University, and was a CASA Fellow at The American University in Cairo. She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association. Selected works Translator * ''Minor Detail'' by Adania Shibli (New Directions, 2020) * ''The Frightened Ones'' by Dima Wannous (Knopf, 2020) (nominated for the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation in 2021) * Thirteen Months of Sunrise' by Rania Mamoun (Comma Press, 2019) *''The Apartment in Bab el-Louk'' by Donia Maher (Darf Publishers, 2017) *''Suslov's Daughter'' by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Darf Publishers, 2017) *''The Queue'' by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House, 2016) See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
