Mary Ann Newman Awarded the 2017 NACS Prize for Private Life
We are thrilled to announce that Mary Ann Newman has been awarded the 2017 North American Catalan Society Prize for her translation of Josep M. de Sagarra's Private Life! In their citation, the judges write that "Newman’s fluid and elegant translation renders
Abdellatif Laâbi Finalist for Best Translated Book Award 2017
The Best Translated Book Awards have announced their finalists for fiction and poetry, and Donald Nicholson-Smith's translation of Abdellatif Laâbi's In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems has been shortlisted! The BTBA, founded by Three Percent, aim to bring attention to the best original
In Praise of Defeat Shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
Abdellatif Laâbi's In Praise of Defeat, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize! The judges call this volume of Laâbi's work "a landmark," commending him as "one of the major poets of our time,