Winners of the 2024 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), were announced on Saturday at an awards ceremony during ALTA's annual conference, ALTA47: Voices in Translation, in Milwaukee, Wis.
National Translation Award in Prose winner:
The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi, translated from Italian by Jame Richards (And Other Stories). Judges said, "The Hunger of Women seamlessly defies literary conventions to tell the story of an unconventional narrator who holds the wisdoms of ages passed on to her through food and the female body. Castaldi, through Richards, invites us to a landscape of the everyday, to be and become with a woman who offers us 'the miracle of the host.' In this feast of words and rhythms, we, addressed as Reader, find ourselves, in intimacy with a life in motion, experiencing an insatiable desire for tastes on our tongues and touches on our skin."
National Translation Award in Poetry winner:
And the Street by Pierre Alferi, translated from French by Cole Swensen (Green Linden Press). "Pierre Alferi, who recently passed away, was a major figure in contemporary French experimental poetry. A scholar of medieval literature, Alferi's work is deeply informed by Postmodern critical theory as well as the lyrical traditions of both English and French poetry. The short fractured lyrics of And the Street capture the velocity and intensity of contemporary life, which somehow slowing time and attention to the smaller and often ignored moments that make up quotidian lives. The son of a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, Alferi's work in And the Street marries the deep inner life with the phenomena of the material world."
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Longlists have been selected for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The 46 titles, 23 in each category, can be seen here. Shortlists will be announced November 12, and the two medal winners January 26 during LibLearnX. Presentations take place during the ALA's annual conference, to be held June 2025 in Philadelphia, Pa.
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The shortlist has been selected for the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, honoring titles that "best evoke the Wodehouse spirit of witty characters and perfectly timed comic prose." See the list here (via British Comedy Guide). The winner will be announced December 2.