ALTA Awards Announcement: National Translation Award in Prose
Channel: Literary Translation
Date: 2020-10-28

Tune in here for the announcement of the 2020 winner of the National Translation Award in Prose. 

Judged in 2020 by: Amaia Gabantxo, Emmanuel D. Harris II, and William M. Hutchins.

This year's shortlisted titles are: 
1) Beyond Babylon, by Igiaba Scego, translated from the Italian by Aaron Robertson. Published by Two Lines Press.
2) The Cheffe, by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Published by Alfred A. Knopf. 
3) A Couple of Soles, by Li Yu, translated from the Chinese by Jing Shen and Robert E. Hegel. Published by Columbia University Press. 
4) God's Wife, by Amanda Michalopoulou, translated from the Greek (Modern) by Patricia Felisa Barbeito. Published by Dalkey Archive Press.
5) Optic Nerve, by María Gainza, translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead. Published by Catapult.
6) Zuleikha, by Guzel Yakhina, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden. Published by Oneworld.

The National Translation Award is awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. Established in 1998, the NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include an evaluation of the source language text.

Submissions for the 2021 award will be opened in January 2021 at https://alta.submittable.com/submit.