Anthea Bell has won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from the German for her rendering of Stefan Zweig's Burning Secret (1913). Runner-up is Michael Hofmann for Fred Wander's The Seventh Well (1971).
Interestingly enough, all the other awards being handed out this coming Monday have gone to translators of contemporary literature.
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This is pretty hilarious, given that Hofmann just published an article trashing Zweig in the LRB.
That made me laugh too - and wonder over possible sour grapes. Who knows how the timing for these prizes works?
Still ploughing slowly through that article though.
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