Found in Translation Award

The Found in Translation Award was established by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute London, the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the W.A.B. Publishing House (Warsaw). Since 2015 the FiT Award is awarded by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute London and the Polish Cultural Institute New York (in 2016 they will be joined by the Polish Institute in New Delhi). It is an annual award for the best translation of Polish literature into English, and the award is given to the translator(s). The first award was made in 2007.^[1][2][3]

Winners of the prize

2008 - Bill Johnston, translator of Tadeusz Rozewicz's New Poems (Archipelago Books, New York, 2007)^[4]
2009 - Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Pawel Huelle's The Last Supper (Serpent's Tail, 2008)^[5]
2010 - Danuta Borchardt, translator of Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia (Grove/Atlantic, 2009)^[6]
2011 - Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak, translators of Wislawa Szymborska's Here (Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt, 2010)^[7]
2012 - Joanna Trzeciak, translator of Tadeusz Rozewicz's Sobbing Superpower (W.W. Norton, 2011)^[8]
2013 - Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of seven books published in 2012:^[9]
- Paweł Huelle's Cold Sea Stories (Comma Press, 2012)
- Jacek Dehnel's Saturn (Dedalus Press, 2012)
- Zygmunt Miłoszewski's A Grain of Truth (Bitter Lemon Press, 2012)
- Artur Domosławski's Ryszard Kapuściński, A Life (Verso Books, 2012)
- Wojciech Jagielski's The Night Wanderers (Seven Stories & Old Street Publishing, 2012)
- Andrzej Szczeklik's Kore: On Sickness, the Sick and the Search for the Soul of Medicine (Counterpoint Press, 2012)
- Janusz Korczak's Kaytek the Wizard (Urim Publications/Penlight Press, 2012)
2014 - Philip Boehm, translator of Hanna Krall's Chasing the King of Hearts (Peirene Press, 2013)^[10]
2015 - Ursula Phillips, translator of Zofia Nałkowska's Choucas (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014)^[11]

References

1. "Home - Polish Cultural Institute". Polishculture-nyc.org. 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
2. "The Polish-English "Found in Translation" Award". Readingworldwide.com. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
3. "Found in Translation prize (Polish) - Literature Across Frontiers". Lit-across-frontiers.org. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
4. "First Found in Translation Award Goes to Bill Johnston | Daily News | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
5. "Antonia Lloyd-Jones receives Found in Translation Award | Bacacay: The Polish Literature Weblog". Bacacay.wordpress.com. 2009-05-02. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
6. "Found in Translation Award: Danuta Borchardt for Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia". Cosmopolitanreview.com. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
7. "Wisława Szymborska Translation Wins 'Found in Translation' Award : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
8. "Joanna Trzeciak Wins the Found in Translation Award 2012 | Event". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
9. "Found in Translation Award for Antonia Lloyd-Jones / Events / Instytut Książki". Bookinstitute.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
10. "Found in Translation Award 2014 / Events / Instytut Książki". Bookinstitute.pl. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
11. http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/events/news/article/ursula-phillips-wins-the-found-in-translation-award-2015-2690.html