Nora Gal Award summed up

On April 27, in the Turgenev library in Moscow, the results of the fifth season of the Nora Gal Award for the translation of short prose from English were summed up. The main award of 2016 was awarded to Anna Blaise for the translation of the "calendar of fairy tales" Nile Gaiman.

This was reported to Colta.ru by the founders of the award - translator and publisher Dmitry Kuzmin and editor and critic Edward Kuzmin.

The main opponent of Blaise among the finalists, they called another text from the same collection of Neil Gaiman “Caution, triggers” - the story “Truth is a cave in the Black Mountains” translated by Alexei Osipov.

Taking the prize, Anna Blaise said that the book of Nora Gal “The Word Living and Dead” was once the main textbook of translation for her, and participation in the role of the editor in work on the sixth edition of the book (2002) remained in her memory as an important experience.

In addition to the laureate of the award and its diploma, participants in the short list - in 2016, a novice translator was first noticed in 2016, whose first independent steps give serious reasons for hopes for successful professional formation: the incentive scholarship, established under the Nora Gal Award, implies a trip to the International Translation Residence in Latvia to complete the work on nominated text.

The first owner of the scholarship was Alexander Samarin , the author of the translation of the story of Don Delillo "Midnight at Dostoevsky."

Dmitry Kuzmin said that other young translators, including those who had already fallen into the field of view of Elena Kislenkova and Maria Kamenskaya, presented the texts that deserved attention this year, and expressed the hope that work in the residence in close contact with senior colleagues would further make up for the loss of translation seminars, which had long served in Russian tradition with the main mechanism. Transfer of professional skill.