They’ve announced the winner of this year’s Nordic Council Literature Prize, the leading Scandinavian literary prize, and it is the first three volumes of Solvej Balle’s septology — yes, another Nordic septology … — Om udregning af rumfang ; see also, for example, the Danish Arts Foundation information page for volume three. Balle’s According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind has been translated into English, and I’ve long hoped to come across a copy; get yours at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk . But with this win we should be seeing more of her work in English — this prize has a very good track record, and quite a few winning titles are under review at the complete review . Sarah Maguire Prize They’ve announced the winner of this year’s Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation — though not yet at the official site, last I checked … –, a: “biennial award for the best book of poetry in English translation by a living poet from beyond Europe”, and it is Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translation of Exhausted on the Cross , by Najwan Darwish; see, for example, Lauren Brown’s report in The Bookseller . See also the New York Review Books publicity page for Exhausted on the Cross . Friedrich Ulfers Prize This year’s Festival Neue Literatur in New York is coming up — yeah, no information at the official site yet … — and as part of that they will also be handing out […]
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