September 14, 2023—The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is delighted to announce the 2023 shortlists for the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA)!
The winners of these awards will be announced at ALTA’s annual awards ceremony, which will take place on November 11, 2023 in Tucson, AZ, as part of ALTA’s annual conference, ALTA46: The Place of Translation, the first fully in-person conference since 2019.
Congratulations to the translators, authors, and publishers on these lists! Learn more about the awards and see the shortlists below:
Starting in 2015, the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA) recognizes the importance of contemporary Italian prose (fiction and literary non-fiction) and promotes the translation of Italian works into English. This prize is awarded annually to a translator of a recent work of Italian prose (fiction or literary non-fiction). The award-winning translator for 2023 will receive a $5,000 cash prize.
This year’s judges are Leah Janeczko, Jenny McPhee, and Jamie Richards. Follow this link to see what the judges had to say about each of the shortlisted titles.
The Betrothed
By Alessandro Manzoni
Translated by Michael F. Moore
The Modern Library
The Color Line
By Igiaba Scego
Translated by John Cullen and Gregory Conti
Other Press
The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales & Their Tellers
By various authors
Translated by Nancy L. Canepa
Wayne State University Press
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
By Silvia Ferrara
Translated by Todd Portnowitz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
M: Son of the Century
By Antonio Scurati
Translated by Anne Milano Appel
Harper
The Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, which was inaugurated in 2009, recognizes the importance of Asian translation for international literature and promotes the translation of Asian works into English. The award-winning translator for 2023 will receive a $6,000 cash prize.
This year’s judges are Soje, Dong Li, and Paige Aniyah Morris. Follow this link to see what the judges had to say about each of the shortlisted titles.
In the Roar of the Machine
By Zheng Xiaoqiong
Translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
Giramondo Publishing
In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty
By 37 Tang Poets
Translated from Chinese by Wong May
The Song Cave | Carcanet
A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts
By Wang Yin
Translated from Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter
New York Review Books
The Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), which was inaugurated in 2022, is offered by the American Literary Translators Association in conjunction with the Spain-USA Foundation. The award recognizes translations into English of literary prose works written originally by authors of Spanish (Spain) nationality. The award-winning translator for 2023 will receive a $5,000 cash prize.
This year’s judges are Lisa Dillman, Tiago Miller, and Gary Racz. Follow this link to see what the judges had to say about each of the shortlisted titles.
Antagony
By Luis Goytisolo
Translated from Spanish by Brendan Riley
Dalkey Archive Press
The Last Days of Terranova
By Manuel Rivas
Translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers
Archipelago Books
Mothers Don’t
By Katixa Agirre
Translated from Spanish by Katie Whittemore
Open Letter
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
By Irene Vallejo
Translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle
Alfred A. Knopf
Two Women
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Translated from Spanish by Barbara F. Ichiishi
Bucknell University Press
Join us at this year’s conference in Tucson, AZ on November 11, 2023 to see the winners announced at the awards ceremony!