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Just six years after publishing her first translation, Aneesa Abbas Higgins won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho. In this conversation, Abbas Higgins talks with Samantha Schnee about coming to translation in middle age and offers
Jhumpa Lahiri headlines the 2020 Society of Authors Awards for her translation of ‘ Trick’ by Domenico Starnone for Europa Editions. In London’s Bloomsbury, February 8. Image – iStockphoto: Josh Good Five Winners Newly Announced In London this morning (February 11), the Society of Authors—which annually administers a large collection of endowed awards programs—has announced the winners of its suite of 2020 translation awards. The society, in fact, is a trade union that handles many more prize programs than this, carrying in 2020 alone some £120,000 (US$159,994) in prizes for vari...