Celia Hawkesworth (born 1942) is an author, lecturer, and translator of

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...

Biography

Celia Hawkesworth graduated from

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sid ...

in 1964 and was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in

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for 10 months, where she began her career as a translator. From 1971 to 2002, Hawkesworth was a senior lecturer of Serbian and Croatian in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

. Based in

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and an active part of the environmentalist movement, she has translated over 40 books by Slavic authors into English, including The Culture of Lies by

Dubravka Ugrešić Dubravka Ugrešić (; born 27 March 1949) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996 and refuses to identify as a Croatian writer. Early life and education Ugrešić ...

, My Heart by

Semezdin Mehmedinović Semezdin Mehmedinović (born 1960 in Kiseljak is a Bosnian writer and magazine editor. After studying Librarianship and Comparative Literature in Sarajevo, he worked as an editor of "Lica" and "Valter" magazines, which served as a voice of opposi ...

, EEG by

Daša Drndić Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winner

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in ...

. She has also written several textbooks of colloquial Croatian,

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

, an anthology of Serbian and Bosnian women writers, a cultural history of

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, and a literary biography of

. In 1975, she was appointed to as a trustee to the British Trust Scholarship and has served as both secretary and chairperson. Her translation of

Daša Drndić Daša Drndić (10 August 1946 – 5 June 2018) was a Croatian writer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade.Istros Books Istros books is a London-based independent publisher of writers from South-East Europe and the Balkans, in English translation. It was set up in 2011 by Susan Curtis. Publications Notable publications include: *''Doppelgänger'' by Daša Drndić ...

) and

Senka Marić Senka Marić (born 1972) is a Bosnian writer. She is best known for her work as a poet and for her 2018 novel ''Kintsugi Tijela'', which draws from the author's own experiences with breast cancer. Marić is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of th ...

's ''Body Kintsugi'' (Peirene Press) were awarded a PEN Translates grant by

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Selected bibliography

Translator

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Accolades

*1998: Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation shortlist for The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić *1999: Heldt Prize for Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić *2018:

EBRD Literature Prize The EBRD Literature Prize is a literary prize established in 2017 by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. As per the bank, the prize celebrates the "literary richness" of its operational regions, which spans some 40 countries across ...

finalist for Belladonna by Daša Drndić *2018:

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 i ...

winner for Belladonna by Daša Drndić *2018:

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in 1999. The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Weidenfe ...

shortlist for Belladonna by Daša Drndić *2019:

Republic of Consciousness Prize The Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses is an annual British literary prize founded by the author Neil Griffiths. It rewards fiction published by UK and Irish small presses, defined as those with fewer than five full-time employees ...

shortlist for Doppelgänger by Daša Drndić *2019:

winner for Omer Pasha Latas by Ivo Andrić *2020: American Association of Teachers for Slavic and Eastern European Languages' Best Literary Translation into English for EEG by Daša Drndić *2020: Best Translated Book Award for EEG by Daša Drndić

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkesworth, Celia Living people British translators Translators to English Serbian–English translators Translators from Serbian 20th-century translators 21st-century translators 21st-century British translators Literary translators Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge 1942 births