Claim: Peter Constantine received the Koret Jewish Book Award for his translation of Thomas Mann's Six Early Stories and was also awarded the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories.
Evidence: In 2002, Constantine's translation of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, edited by Nathalie Babel, received a Koret Jewish Book Award and a National Jewish Book Award citation. Since the publication of his first book-length translation, Thomas Mann: Six Early Stories, he has worked almost exclusively as a literary translator. In 1999 he was awarded the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories.