ROSSICA YOUNG TRANSLATORS AWARD 2012
The shortlist for the Rossica Young Translators Award is:
Gregory Afinogenov (Harvard) - Pelevin
Sarah Vitali - Figgle-Miggle
Olga Kuzmina (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - Bykov
Cecylia Grendowicz (Oxford) - Pelevin
Peter Slezkine (University of Chicago) - Figgle-Miggle
Joseph Hardy (King's College Cambridge) - Pelevin
The winner will now be declared alongside the winner of the senior Rossica Prize for Translation at a special event in London on 23 May. They will receive a prize of £500.
Academia Rossica is delighted to announce that we have received 183 entries for the 2012 Rossica Young Translators Award.This is an unprecedented number of submissions and we are especially pleased to have received translations from all over the world, including Europe, Russia and North America.
Due to an unprecedented number of entries (183 – more than 3 times more than last year!) Academia Rossica have decided to postpone the presentation of the Rossica Young Translators Award to allow the judges more time to consider all the entries.
