{"id":270536,"date":"2009-04-22T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/04\/22\/congrats-drenka\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:06","slug":"congrats-drenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/04\/22\/congrats-drenka\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats Drenka!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our hero, Drenka Willen, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonbookfair.co.uk\/page.cfm\/Link=208\/t=m\/goSection=12\">just given<\/a> the 2009 London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out from the <span class=\"caps\">LBF<\/span> site:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Drenka Willen joined Harcourt as a translator and freelance editor in the nineteen-sixties. She took over day-to-day duties for the Helen &amp; Kurt Wolff imprint in 1981. She is currently a Senior Editor. Among the authors and translators she has worked with are G\u00fcnter Grass, Italo Calvino, Octavio Paz, Wis\u0142awa Szymborska, Jos\u00e9 Saramago, Umberto Eco, Irving Howe, Charles Simic, Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski, Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Yehuda Amichai, William Weaver, Ralph Manheim, Edward Gorey, Ralph Steadman, Harold Bloom, Wendy Wasserstein, George Konr\u00e1d, Bohumil Hrabal, James Kelman, Edith Grossman, Margaret Jull Costa, Krishna Winston, Cees Nooteboom, Stanislaw Lem, Hugo Claus, Milovan Djilas, Breyten Breytenbach, Toma\u017e \u0160alamun, Danilo Ki\u0161, Max Frisch, Margaret Drabble, Pawe\u0142 Huelle, Jurek Becker, Clare Cavanagh, Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak, Boris Pahor, Antonio Mu\u00f1oz Molina, Andrzej Stasiuk, Marcel Beyer, Carsten Jensen, L\u00eddia Jorge, Aleksandar Ti\u0161ma, Julio Llamazares, Akira Yoshimura, Karin Fossum, Brigitte Hamann, Andr\u00e9 Brink, Stefan Chwin, Luis Sep\u00falveda, Paul Klebnikov, Pedro Rosa Mendes, Vladimir Voinovich, Jens Christian Grondahl, Arturo P\u00e9rez-Reverte, Andrew Miller, Claire Messud, Robin Robertson, Michael Kr\u00fcger, Mark Ford, Andrew O\u2019Hagan, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Philip Schultz, and David Albahari.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mindboggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our hero, Drenka Willen, who was just given the 2009 London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing. Check this out from the LBF site: Drenka Willen joined Harcourt as a translator and freelance editor in the nineteen-sixties. She took over day-to-day duties for the Helen &amp; Kurt Wolff imprint in 1981. [&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":[17426,2136,11466],"class_list":["post-270536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-drenka-willen","tag-ejvl","tag-london-book-fair"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270536","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=270536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270536\/revisions\/353176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}