The winner of the 2015 English-language Literary Translation Prize
The Hellenic American Union, Goethe-Institut Athen, Instituto Cervantes de Atenas and the Danish Institute in Athens awarded yesterday (Sept. 30, 2015) the 2015 Literary Translation Prizes to three translators for the best translation into Greek from English, German and Spanish respectively.
The winner of the 2015 English-language Literary Translation Prize is Maria Xilouri, for the translation of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (Topos).
The prizes for the two remaining categories were awarded to: Karina Lampsa & Pavlina Dirani (German-language Literary Translation Prize) for the book Vielleicht Esther by Katja Petrowskaja (Kapon Editions) and Achilleas Kyriakidis (Spanish-language Literary Translation Prize) for the book El ruido de las cosas al caer by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Ikaros).
See more information on the 2015 Literary Translation Prizes.
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