We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.
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This is the first time that a poetry collection has won the prize. The judges commented: “This volume is an epic achievement: it wrests a visionary language, where tragedy and transcendence meet, from the darkest places of 20th-century experience.”
And there is a special mention: Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. by Michael Hofmann (Granta).
“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”
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“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”