Daniel Hahn plans to donate half of his winnings from the International Dublin Literary Award to fund a new prize for debut translators. José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn were recently awarded the prestigious prize for Agualusa’s groundbreaking novel, A General Theory of Oblivion.

Hahn says that the prize’s aim is to recognize “excellent debut literary prose translation published in the UK.” Antonia Lloyd-Jones, joint chair of the Translators Association, notes that Hahn’s endowment is “a ground-breaking addition to the world of literary translation.”

Read more about the the TA First Translation Prize.