Medal for Excellence in Translation shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation, administered by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), has been announced.
The shortlisted translators and their works are:
- Stephanie Smee for On the Line: Notes from a Factory (Joseph Ponthus, Black Inc.)
- Josh Stenberg for For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse (Jiang Tao, Zephyr)
- Kevin Windle and Elena Govor for Voices in the Wilderness: A Digest of the Russian-language Press in Australia 1912–1919 (Australian Scholarly Publishing).
Established in 2016, the medal ‘recognises outstanding achievement in translation and the vital role of translators and translation in Australian culture and scholarly discourse’, and is awarded biennially for a book-length translation into English of a work of any genre.
The winner of the 2024 medal will be announced on 30 September, which is also International Translation Day.
Robert Savage was the winner of the most recent Medal for Excellence in Translation, awarded in 2022 for his work on Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time (Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Princeton University Press).
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