Words without Borders has announced that Sara Bershtel, publisher of Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, will be the recipient of the 2015 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.
She'll receive it at the Words without Borders gala on 2 November.
Having won the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers Prize -- awarded for championing "the advancement of German-language literature in the United States", Bershtel has now, in quick succession, won two of the major US foreign/international literature lifetime achievement awards.
Having won the 2014 Friedrich Ulfers Prize -- awarded for championing "the advancement of German-language literature in the United States", Bershtel has now, in quick succession, won two of the major US foreign/international literature lifetime achievement awards.