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From: Roger Greenwald
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> PEN American Center
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> 2001 Literary Awards
> presented in New York, 21 May 2001
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> The results for the two translation prizes open to books
> from all languages were as follows.
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> The PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize
> for a distinguished book-length translation published
> in 2000
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> Nominees [finalists; short list]
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> Patrick Camiller. _Journal 1935-1944,_ by Mihail Sebastian
> (published by Ivan R. Dee). Translated from Romanian.
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> Ina Rilke. _The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi,_ by Arthur Japin (Knopf).
> Translated from Dutch.
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> Tiina Nunnally. _Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross,_ by
> Sigrid Undset (Penguin). Translated from Norwegian.
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> WINNER: Tiina Nunnally
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> The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
> for a distinguished book-length translation of poetry published
> in 2000
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> Nominees [finalists; short list]
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> Roger Greenwald. _Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei
> Vesaas_ (Princeton). Translated from Norwegian.
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> John Felstiner. _Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan_ (Norton).
> Translated from German.
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> Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. _Open Closed Open,_ by Yehuda
> Amichai (Harcourt). Translated from Hebrew.
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> WINNER: Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
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> Citations for the Norwegian books:
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> «In completing her translation of _the Cross,_ the third and final
> volume of Sigrid Undset’s trilogy _Kristin Lavransdatter,_
> Tiina Nunnally has returned a masterpiece of Scandinavian
> literature to the English bookshelf. Set in fourteenth-century
> Norway, _Kristin Lavransdatter_ portrays the clash between
> feudal violence and Christian piety, traditional imperatives and
> the individual conscience. For both author and translator, the
> challenge of the historic novel as a genre is to reach across
> chronological and linguistic divides without resorting
> to artifice or anachronism. Throughout the three volumes of
> _Kristin Lavransdatter,_ writing prose as vigorous, articulate
> and naturalistic as the novel it recreates, Tiina Nunnally
> brilliantly captures a world both remote and strangely
> familiar.»
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> «Tarjei Vesaas patrols the mysterious borderlands of silence. With the
> wisdom of reticence, translator Roger Greenwald has found a voice
> in English for this extraordinary poet, a voice that moves us to sense
> the weight of our condition just beyond the edges of what can be
> seen, what can be said.»
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> P.S.: The Amichai book is wonderful, its award richly deserved.
> I recommend it! — RG
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