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Nora Gal Award summed up
Nora Gal Award summed up
© "Babylon" Edward Kuzmina and Irina BochorishviliOn Tuesday, April 22, in the Turgenev library in Moscow for the third time, Nora Gal prize laureates were announced for translation of short prose from English.
The main award of 2014 was received by a translator, literary critic and prose writer, laureate of several awards in the field of science fiction literature Mikhail Nazarenko (Kiev) for working on John Krauli’s story “Missolgolgi, 1824”, published in the collection “Children of Edgar software” (M.: Eksmo, 2013).
Two special awards “For solving a special translation problem” were received by Maria Falikman and Shashi Martynova (both - Moscow). Falikman translated the story of the modern British writer Archchi Black “Uncle Smoke”, Martynova - “A General of Warm Saluy” Michael Martown (USA).
In addition, this year the organizers decided to award the incentive prize to the young translator, who went to Elena Kislenkova , who had been among the finalists of the award for the second year in a row, for the story of the pre -war American writer Steven Vincent Bene “on the Babylonian rivers”.
Among the finalists of the premium list were Elena Kalyavina (Kiev) with the story of Alice Manro “The Dance of Blessed Shadows”, Ksenia Bogdanova (Petersburg) with the story of Katherine Mansfield “Miss Brill” and Jan Shapiro (Sevastopol) with the story of Richmal Krompton “Villam among servants”.
Nora Gal Award was established in 2012 in memory of the outstanding Russian translator Nora Gal (1912–1991). The founders of the award are its heirs: a literary critic and editor Edward Kuzmin, a literary figure and translator Dmitry Kuzmin.
In the absence of Dmitry Kuzmin, this year teaching the course of artistic translation at Princeton University, the ceremony was one single -handed by the daughter of Nora Gal, the editor and critic of Edward Kuzmina. Excerpts from the works that claimed the prize sounded performed by Honored Artist of Russia Irina Bochorishvili. At the end of the evening, excerpts from a documentary, shot in 2012 by the centenary of Nora Gal, were shown.