And the Winners of the 2020 Best Translated Book Awards Are…
The 2020 Best Translated Book Awards—announced in a livestreaming event earlier this evening—were given to Daša Drndić’s EEG and Etel Adnan’s Time.
EEG, translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth and published by New Directions, won for fiction. Lebanese-American Adnan’s Time, translated from the French by Sarah Riggs and published by Nightboat, took the poetry prize.
was Drndić’s last novel, and in 2015, though as translators, men and woman are equally represented throughout the years. It is the third time New Directions has taken home this award.
