Oct 16, 2021
Online
2021 ALTA Awards Ceremony and In Memoriam, hosted by ALTA Vice President Annie Fisher
2021 ALTA Awards Ceremony and In Memoriam, hosted by ALTA Vice President Annie Fisher
Tune in to find out this year’s winners of the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize (opens in new tab), the Italian Prose in Translation Award (opens in new tab), and the National Translation Awards in Prose and Poetry (opens in new tab)!
Judges will highlight the works on each prize’s shortlist before announcing the winners and engaging them in a short conversation about their winning translations. A brief In Memoriam will allow for time to honor those translators who have passed away in the previous year.
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Anne O. Fisher’s translation of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s The Poetics of Titles is forthcoming in Countries That Don’t Exist (Columbia UP). In 2020, Fisher and co-translator Alex Karsavin were awarded a RusTrans grant to support their work on Ilya Danishevsky’s queer modernist novel Mannelig in Chains. Read more at www.anneofisher.com.