Congratulations to our beloved leader! The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation Award. Starting in 2015, the Italian Prose in Translation Award recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This prize is awarded annually to a translator of a recent work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction). This year’s judges are Geoffrey Brock, Peter Constantine, and Sarah Stickney. (see full details here American Translation Award)
Jenny McPhee’s pellucid new translation of Natalia Ginzburg’s 1963 masterpiece, Family Lexicon, is the best English version yet of this genre-defying classic. “The places, events, and people in this book are real,” Ginzburg tells us in her famously monitory preface; “I haven’t invented a thing.” And though she calls it “the story of my family” and claims to have written “only what I remember,” she insists we read it “as if it were a novel.”
Jenny McPhee is currently teaching Literary Translation for the MS in Translation at NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts (CALA).
Also offered at CALA:
Apply for our M.S. in Translation program, which is available in four language pairs: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish, and Chinese to English.
Registration is also open for our five-course, online Certificate in Translation Industry Essentials! This comprehensive certificate—available for all language pairs—will provide an overview of translation concepts and techniques, as well as hands-on training in the translation of documents from a wide range of fields: financial, commercial, legal, and other topics pertinent to today’s market.
On September 29th, CALA will be hosting a symposium focused on the importance of publishing translations as part of the 2-day NYU/NSTS Annual Translation Conference. For more information and registration, visit: https://tinyurl.com/NYU-NSTS2018
Congratulations Jenny! Wonderful news.
Fantastic! Ginsburg is one of my favorites!