Thursday 11 February, 10 am
The Society of Authors Translation Prizes 2020
ICI London is proud to support the John Florio Prize, part of the Society of Authors Translation Prizes, which will be celebrated with a series of six short online videos.
The John Florio Prize is a biennial award of £2000 for translations into English of full-length Italian works of literary merit and general interest.
The shortlisted author this year are:
- Anne Milano Appel for a translation of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig (World Edition)
- Ekin Oklap for a translation of Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Jenny McPhee for a translation of The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte (New York Review Books)
- Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston for a translation of Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli (Princeton University Press)
- Howard Curtis for a translation of Soul of the Border by Matteo Righetto (Pushkin Press)
- Jhumpa Lahiri for a translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions)
The judges are Robert Gordon and Rosa Mucignat
For more information and to attend the event please click HERE