{"id":262186,"date":"2008-05-16T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/16\/the-millions-on-translation-and-prizes\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:11","slug":"the-millions-on-translation-and-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/16\/the-millions-on-translation-and-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Millions on Translation and Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Millions, Garth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillionsblog.com\/2008\/05\/inter-alia-4-international-prizewinners.html\">follows up<\/a> on his literary prize post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=1001\">of a few days ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know next to nothing about the translation business, except that it is vital to my reading habits. And so, earlier this week, I posted a little survey of international awards for fiction, along with the unobjectionable (I think) suggestion that more foreign-language prize-winners should be translated into English. I had been surprised at how difficult it was merely to find English-language information on, for example, The Austrian Grand Prize for East European Literature, and part of my intention was to put the &#8220;wisdom of crowds&#8221; to work for me, via reader comments and blog reactions. And, lo! The Complete Review and The Guardian&#8217;s book blog obliged. From the former, (which seems in possession of much better intel than I am) I learned that the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize may have been a weak proxy for the cream of German-language literature. I also learned, in a pleasant surprise, that my &#8220;translation quotients&#8221; apparently &#8220;do seem to reflect general translation-trends.&#8221; I thought I&#8217;d follow up today with a few interpretive gambits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Millions, Garth follows up on his literary prize post of a few days ago: I know next to nothing about the translation business, except that it is vital to my reading habits. And so, earlier this week, I posted a little survey of international awards for fiction, along with the unobjectionable (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,4926,1646,3536],"class_list":["post-262186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-garth-risk-hallberg","tag-review","tag-the-millions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326496,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262186\/revisions\/326496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}