{"id":298336,"date":"2014-06-19T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/06\/19\/pen-award-shortlist-announced\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:12:39","slug":"pen-award-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/06\/19\/pen-award-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN Award Shortlist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> announced its shortlists for all the awards ever, including those for works of poetry in translation and works of fiction in translation. For the 2014 awards, <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> tried out something new by announcing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/blog\/longlists-announced-2014-pen-literary-awards\">longlist<\/a> back in May.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/literature\/2014-pen-award-poetry-translation\">poetry<\/a> list was judged this year by Kimiko Hahn:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Even Now<\/em>: Poems by Hugo Claus (Archipelago), David Colmer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Diaries of Exile<\/em> by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago), Karen Emmerich &amp; Edmund Keeley<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Collected Haiku<\/em> of Yosa Buson by Yosa Buson (Copper Canyon Press), Takako Lento &amp; W.S. Merwin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Paul Klee\u2019s Boat<\/em> by Anzhelina Polonskaya (Zephyr Press), Andrew Wachtel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Cut These Words Into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs<\/em> (Johns Hopkins University Press), Michael Wolfe<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(To which I&#8217;ll add that Karen Emmerich is also the translator of Open Letter&#8217;s very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/new-forthcoming\/products\/why-i-killed-my-best-friend\"><em>Why I Killed My Best Friend<\/em> by Amanda Michalopoulou<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In turn, the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/literature\/2014-pen-translation-prize\">fiction<\/a> \/PEN Translation Prize judges are Ann Goldstein, Becka McKay, and Katherine Silver:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>An Armenian Sketchbook<\/em> by Vasily Grossman (New York Review Books), Elizabeth &amp; Robert Chandler<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Transit by Anna Seghers<\/em> (New York Review Books), Margot Bettauer Dembo<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The African Shore<\/em> by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Yale University Press), Jeffrey Gray<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Emperor\u2019s Tomb<\/em> by Joseph Roth (New Directions), Michael Hofmann<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Autobiography of a Corpse<\/em> by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books), Joanne Turnbull &amp; Nikolai Formozov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Winners will be announced by <span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> on July 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, PEN announced its shortlists for all the awards ever, including those for works of poetry in translation and works of fiction in translation. For the 2014 awards, PEN tried out something new by announcing a longlist back in May. The 2014 poetry list was judged this year by Kimiko Hahn: Even Now: Poems by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1646],"class_list":["post-298336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298336","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317426,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298336\/revisions\/317426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}