2016 Lucien Stryk and IPTA shortlists announced

Among the translation prizes given out each year by the American Literary Translators Association at the annual conference (you can read up here on ALTA39, taking place this year in Oakland, CA, Oct. 6-9) are the Lucien Stryk Prize, for a work translated from an Asian language, and the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), which was established in 2015. You’ll have to wait until October to learn the winners, but meanwhile you can feast your eyes on these shortlists.

2016 Lucien Stryk Prize shortlist:

I Am a Season that Does Not Exist in the World

By Kim Kyung Ju

Translated from the Korean by Jake Levine

(Black Ocean)

 

Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi

By Hai Zi

Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun

(The Bitter Oleander Press)

The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa

By Chika Sagawa

Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu

(Canarium Books)

 

The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih

By Wang An-Shih

Translated from the Chinese by David Hinton

(New Directions)

 

These Things Here and Now: Poetic Responses to the March 11, 2011 Disasters

By various poets

Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles

(Josai University Educational Corporation University Press)

 

2016 Italian Prose in Translation Award shortlist:

Hollow Heart

By Viola Di Grado

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

(Europa Editions)

 

The Story of the Lost Child

By Elena Ferrante

Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

(Europa Editions)

 

Tristano Dies: A Life

By Antonio Tabucchi

Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris

(Archipelago Books)

 

Each of these prizes comes with a $5000 purse. Winners to be announced at the conference; congratulations to all the shortlisted translators and their authors!

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