Monday is the big translation-prize day in the UK, as they hold the Sebald Lecture -- 'Paradise Lost: Confessions of an Apostate Translator' by Boris Akunin -- and hand out a whole bunch of (well, eight) translation prizes, from the recently announced Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and the usual annual prizes for translations from the French, German, and Spanish, to four of the less frequently awarded prizes, for works translated from Modern Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Swedish.
As usual, TLS editor Peter Stothard will present the prizes -- and as usual, there's a run-down of who won what in the TLS, which they admirably make available at their site: see Adrian Tahourdin's overview of this year's Translation Prizes.
Among the noteworthy points: two of the winners are re-translations, while Margaret Jull Costa bagged both the win and second place for the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (translation from the Portuguese) -- and then got a second runners-up placing in the Premio Valle Inclán. The latter is noteworthy too, because it's a translation from the Spanish -- of a book originally written in Basque, Bernardo Atxaga's Seven Houses in France.
The only winning title under review at the complete review is Juan Goytisolo's Exiled from Almost Everywhere -- one of two Dalkey Archive Press titles to win.
As usual, TLS editor Peter Stothard will present the prizes -- and as usual, there's a run-down of who won what in the TLS, which they admirably make available at their site: see Adrian Tahourdin's overview of this year's Translation Prizes.
Among the noteworthy points: two of the winners are re-translations, while Margaret Jull Costa bagged both the win and second place for the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize (translation from the Portuguese) -- and then got a second runners-up placing in the Premio Valle Inclán. The latter is noteworthy too, because it's a translation from the Spanish -- of a book originally written in Basque, Bernardo Atxaga's Seven Houses in France.
The only winning title under review at the complete review is Juan Goytisolo's Exiled from Almost Everywhere -- one of two Dalkey Archive Press titles to win.